As for Dream

The poems in As for Dream witness our encounters with boundaries that we cannot cross. In these brief, haunting lyrics, Hamilton refines what we hear as the breath of the human “voice” and its connection and disconnection from the human body in crisis. She studies instances when the sleeper leaves the dream world, when the well tend to the sick, when the living follow the dying to the door and watch them shut it. Hamilton renders internal states with disarming accuracy, recording moments when the self journeys just over those frontiers—slipping from the casing of the body and the social world—and returns, perhaps changed, or finds it cannot.