On the Street of Divine Love

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Perhaps Paul Kareem Taylor said it best in his piece called<i>On the Road Again: Barbara Hamby's American Odyssey:</i>"Reading Barbara Hamby's poetry is like going on a road trip, one where the woman behind the wheel lets you ride shotgun as she speeds across the open highways of an America where drive-in movie theaters still show Janet Leigh films on Friday nights, hardware stores have not been driven out of business by soulless corporate titans, and where long poetic lines first introduced by Walt Whitman and resurrected by Ginsberg are pregnant with a thousand reasons to marvel at the world we inhabit."

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<b>Barbara Hamby</b>has published seven books of poetry, most recently<i>Bird</i><i>Odyssey</i> and<i>On the Street of Divine Love: New and Selected Poems</i>. She was a 2010 Guggenheim fellow, and her book of linked stories,<i>Lester Higata’s 20th Century</i>, won the 2010 University of Iowa John Simmons Award and was published by the University of Iowa Press. She and her husband David Kirby edited the poetry anthology<i>Seriously Funny</i>. She teaches at Florida State University where she is distinguished university scholar.<b></b>

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