A Woman Looks Over Her Shoulder Alfred Starr Hamilton singular American writer—a student of

singular American writer—a student of Charles Olson’s often associated with the Language poets but whose eclectic

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YOU traces a jagged line through fears and joys both past and present

and absurdities of making art and family and meaning against a backdrop of interlocking

A Woman Looks Over Her Shoulder Alfred Starr Hamilton singular American writer—a student ofBrynja Hjlmsdttir (trans. Rachel Britton) In A Woman Looks Over Her Shoulder, written by contemporary Icelandic poet Brynja Hjlmsdttir and translated by Rachel Britton, one woman lives in a glass ball that is being shaken by someone else. This book of poems, however, is always shaking itself up, leaping between the extreme and the daily, the gross and the delicious, between being scared and being scary. These surreal, visceral, and somehow polite