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ALFRED STARR HAMILTON
Alfred Starr Hamilton (June 14, 1914 – 2005) was an American poet. A lifelong resident of Montclair, New Jersey, Hamilton contributed to many small presses, including Epoch, New Directions, Foxfire, New Letters, Archive, Poetry Now, American Poetry Review and Greenfield Review. His work has been championed by Jonathan Williams and Ron Silliman and his poetry was included in the first issue of Thomas Merton’s Monk’s Pond.
Bibliography:
Sphinx (1968)
The Poems of Alfred Starr Hamilton (1970)
The Big Parade (1982)
A Dark Dreambox of Another Kind: The Poems of Alfred Starr Hamilton (2013)
ZBIGNIEW HERBERT
“So not having pretensions to infallibility, but stating only my predilections, I would like to say that in contemporary poetry the poems that appeal to me the most are those in which I discern something I would call a quality of semantic transparency (a term borrowed from Husserl’s logic). This semantic transparency is the characteristic of a sign consisting in this: that during the time when the sign is used, attention is directed towards the object denoted, and the sign itself does not hold the attention. The word is a window onto reality.” (Zbigniew Herbert)
