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Christine Hamm
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PUBLISHED: Oct.31.2011

Echo Park

Christine Hamm’s Echo Park takes you by the hand and leads you into a vast subterranean passion play that moves through houses and theaters and parks and alleys all the while smiling all the while promising that the over-ripe orange you smell will recede and your hair will stop burning and you can find your way out of the root cellar even though the light is busted and the...

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The Transparent Dinner

From Amazon: (by Aleah Sato) Christine Hamm's Transparent Dinner illustrates the psychological breaking down of the American daughter. Beginning at the dinner table, this daughter intuitively knows her fate, and is forced to come face-to-face with her incompetent (at best) and malevolent (at worst) mother. You feel the daughter's frustration, especially in My Mother's Basement and...

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PUBLISHED: Mar.10.2010

Saints & Cannibals by Christine Hamm

A fierce book of poetry based on historical and mythical saints and cannibals, including Saint Claire and Hansel & Gretel. Reviewers say: "it's hard to tell at times who are the saints and who are the cannibals... Hamm explores the boundaries of the body in exquisite detail; puberty, cancer, eating disorders, and the lure and horrors of modern medicine escalate into...

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May.18.2013 - 5:53 pm

origin story deuce

Breach A crack. A creak. A groan. From the other side of the wracked fence, horses peer into the ditch. Hooves scrape away moss. Stones scatter from the pile...

Mar.29.2013 - 7:17 pm

I can't handle all these stars

The Lost Needle Ornery, you called me, crystalline, fluttering. Stars on wands, stuck in gravel near the mailbox, indicated a turn. Your breath made them...

Mar.05.2013 - 8:00 am

farm girls and ghosts

After Image Outside, a field bent by a recent snow. A truck idles by the shed. Red, surrounded by a black wavering cloud. I have your necklace in my boot. The music of...

Feb.23.2013 - 8:12 pm

hats, birds and grass

Origin Story On the hospital lawn, we perch, knees touching. The blue swallows...

Comments from Christine

Feb.24.2013 - 8:09 am

In response to: hats, birds and grass

Thanks, Ron -- the

Thanks, Ron -- the counterfeits are pretty easy to make, once it's explained.

Dec.05.2012 - 8:00 am

In response to: flowers, flowers for the dead

Hammilicious

That's my new favorite word! Thanks for your comment -- esp., tracing of flowers -- that made me go, hmmm.

Nov.18.2012 - 8:30 pm

In response to: Movie Madness

Thanks!

Oct.23.2012 - 11:23 am

In response to: putting the real back in surreal (not really)

Thanks! Dreams are really

Thanks! Dreams are really important to my poems -- I don't know if I'd be able to write without them!

Sep.25.2012 - 7:33 pm

In response to: Is a body a house?

Thanks -- you're my most

Thanks -- you're my most faithful reader!

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Video: Cinepoem from my new collection, Gorilla

Video: me reading my poetry

About Christine

Christine Hamm is a PhD candidate in English Literature at Drew University. She won the MiPoesias First Annual Chapbook Competition with her manuscript, Children Having Trouble with Meat. Her poetry has been published in The Adirondack Review, Pebble Lake...

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