Out of Canaan: Poems

By Mary Stewart Hammond

Book Overview

"In Out of Canaan, her stunning first book of poems, Hammond evokes the poignant history of four generations of her Southern family. The reader is immediately attracted by the sheer sparkle and vitality of the language."-Library Journal

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393309398
• ISBN13: 9780393309393
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.37 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.2" x 7.9"

Customer Reviews

Timeless-Reread it again and again.

I have just reread this wonderfully thoughtful book of poems. These poems draw me back again and again. Each time I uncover new meaning and new feelings. These poems are a companion to every woman as she "grows up" and becomes wiser and gentler. I am anxious to hear Mary Stewarts voice in the next decade.

An exceptional volume of contemporary poetry.

Someone said the power of poetry (and perhaps all art) is the power to make you stop. This is what I found happening again and again as I read "Out of Canaan" -- stopping to reflect, stopping as felling welled up, stopping for insight. The author writes of some very traumatic issues but does so with great artistic restraint, which is the strength, I think of this book. Buy it!

Honest, well-written modern poetry.

This is the first book of poetry by Mary Stewart who also teaches a Poetry Workshop in NYC that is attracting the best writers of contemporary poetry in the East. This collection is well-written, structurally clean, cogent, and, perhaps most of all, from the heart. It makes the reader wonder how one diminishes one life by not confronting one's pains and sorrows.