Call & Response

by Forrest Hamer

Book Overview

"Forrest Hamer's poems rise out of the places where religion and dancing-- spirit and body-- join, and in reading Call and Response 'We are journeying to the source of all wonder, / We journey by dance. Amen.' Amen We call in celebration. Amen " --Andrew Hudgins

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1882295064
• ISBN13: 9781882295067
• Release Date: November 1995
• Publisher: Alice James Books
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

Powerful, always intelligent poems

Hamer has a great ear for the sounds of his southern home town, and writes powerfully about family, slavery, and love. But the most striking aspect of these poems is the thinking that is going on behind them, and the open spaces he leaves for us to fill with our own feeling. Robert Hass wrote a very positive review in the Washington Post when this book first came out.