On the Street of Divine Love : New and Selected Poems. Hamby, Barbara.

and grace the standard poetic fare: love, death, and disappointment. Idiomatic, raw, and skewed in the

Gospel According to Paul -- Acrostic for My Father -- Photographing the Moths -- When I Think of Love

-- Specifically the Luminous -- The Strength -- Floorboard -- Page One -- the love that is truly a refuge for all

-- Next Moment -- Belated Tribute -- Song -- Countersong -- The Wisdom of Love -- The Donors -- In Another

Fence -- "-So Full of Sleep-" -- Armida -- Love That Twisted Vine -- One-Sided Conversation with Henry

provokes--A love letter from the imagination to the scientists and philosophers who, despite remarkable

-- LOVE LIKE UNTO WHITED SEPULCHRES -- CHANTICLEER -- NOLI ME TANGERE -- THIS PLENTY, THIS NEVER ENOUGH

-- YOU CANNOT LOVE THE WIND -- REPORT FROM THE COMPOUND -- A MOTHER'S TEN-SECOND HISTORY LESSON -- VERONA

corporate histories, urgent fantasias, and agonizing love poems.

-- What We Love -- Prayer -- April -- Soften and Melt -- In Every Life -- Try To -- The Fear Triptych

-- Ravine Goddess, August -- Quebrada -- Anti-Love Poem -- My Mother's Feline Companion -- Wreath for the