Barbara Hamby
Auteur de Seriously Funny: Poems about Love, Death, Religion, Art, Politics, Sex, and Everything Else
A propos de l'auteur
Barbara Hamby has published seven books of poetry, most recently Bird Odyssey and On the Street of Divine Love: New and Selected Poems. She was a 2010 Guggenheim fellow, and her book of linked stories, Lester Higata's 20th Century, won the 2010 University of Iowa John Simmons Award and was afficher plus published by the University of Iowa Press. She and her husband David Kirby edited the poetry anthology Seriously Funny. She teaches at Florida State University where she is distinguished university scholar. afficher moins
Œuvres de Barbara Hamby
Seriously Funny: Poems about Love, Death, Religion, Art, Politics, Sex, and Everything Else (2010) — Directeur de publication — 44 exemplaires
Oeuvres associées
When She Named Fire: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry by American Women (1900) — Contributeur — 11 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom légal
- Hamby, Barbara
- Date de naissance
- 1952
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- VS
- Lieu de naissance
- New Orleans, Louisiana, VS
- Lieux de résidence
- Tallahassee, Florida, VS
Hawaii, VS - Relations
- Kirby, David K. (husband)
- Organisations
- Florida State University
Membres
Critiques
Prix et récompenses
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 9
- Aussi par
- 5
- Membres
- 180
- Popularité
- #119,865
- Évaluation
- 3.6
- Critiques
- 15
- ISBN
- 21
As I read, I found myself comparing this to another of my favorite short story collections: the Pulitzer Prize winner: Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout. Lester Higata and Olive Kitteridge have much in common. They are involved in many different aspects of their communities, they are aging, the stories in the collections give us a beautiful and fully developed character, and an insight into the life of those in the settings. Hamby's linked stories include a look back to Lester's wounding in the war and his marriage to a haole (white) woman of whom his mother dusapproved, and give us a sense of community among the other inhabitants of Lipona street. A truly rewarding reading experience.… (plus d'informations)