{"product_id":"babel-paperback-6","title":"Babel - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBarbara Hamby\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBabel features more of the rhetorical acrobatics that fueled Barbara Hamby's earlier work. These whirlwinds of words and sounds form vistas, images, and scenes that are at once unique and immediately recognizable. In poems such as \"Six, Sex, Say,\" she displays a linguistic bravado that moves effortlessly through translations, cognates, and homonyms. This love of words permeates the poems, from the husband wooing his future wife \"with a barrage of words so cunningly fluent, \/ so linguistically adroit\" in \"Flesh, Bone, and Red,\" to the alphabetic sampler woven from memory and love in \"Ode on My Mother's Handwriting.\" Hamby's poems drift across histories and continents, from early writing and culture in Mesopotamia through the motion-picture heaven that seems so much like Paris, to odes on such thoroughly American subjects as hardware stores, bubblegum, barbecue, and sharp-tongued cocktail waitresses giving mandatory pre-date quizzes to lawyers and \"orangutans in the guise of men.\" As Booklist noted in reviewing her previous collection, Hamby's poems \"are tsunamis carrying you far out to sea and then back to shore giddy and glad to be alive.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBarbara Hamby \u003c\/b\u003ehas published seven books of poetry, most recently \u003ci\u003eBird\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eOdyssey\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eOn the Street of Divine Love: New and Selected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e. She was a 2010 Guggenheim fellow, and her book of linked stories, \u003ci\u003eLester Higata's 20th Century\u003c\/i\u003e, won the 2010 University of Iowa John Simmons Award and was published by the University of Iowa Press. She and her husband David Kirby edited the poetry anthology \u003ci\u003eSeriously Funny\u003c\/i\u003e. She teaches at Florida State University where she is distinguished university scholar.\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 88\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.28 x 8.96 x 5.94 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 07, 2004\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47353638748409,"sku":"9780822958598","price":21.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/nG5HhLty619780822958598_194347bd-8ad9-455f-bf7a-b108c2ffbac3.webp?v=1769825496","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/babel-paperback-6","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}