This wondrous book contains a life lived in poetry. the trouble is finding one decade’s worth that outshines the other. Hamill’s commitment to poetry & the light it sheds even in its darkest moments are unshakeable. her voice has been consistent for these past 40 odd years with not an iota of diminishing strength. Hamill starts out fully formed in the 70’s and remains so until the present. her poems are never “clogged with an obstruction of black orchids” but rather blossom—each as a vibrant flower—each preceding or proceeding the other, delivering sights, smells, tastes, “sounds that come and go” into all our senses & beyond. this book is not the “Tragedy of Janet Hamill” but rather the triumph of poetry… indulge in & be “devoured by [her] “words” as you too become a “sleepwalker through time”…on “voyages of melancholy”, mirth, desire, longing & history. may these poems help to “fill your holes” with their bare-knuckled authenticity & cause your very soul to “flame up.”
Steve Dalachinsky, nyc 9/1/19

Janet Hamill steers the heart-shaped barque of her poetry over vast seas and vertiginous narrows. Both exotic and intimate, her travels follow a unique and hypnotic star-map. She is an enchanting teller of the oldest tales and an accurate guide to the last century’s best reach into ours. Read these poems like lines on a palm or view them like a Truffaut or Hitchcock film. They are visceral and erudite. They rewarded this lucky reader with mystery, delight, and sensual music.
Andrei Codrescu

Janet Hamill is one of the great living voices of American Surrealism. Inheriting Modernism with open arms, she’s conducted a lifetime of lithe and sure-footed experiments in “derangement of the senses”—New York style. Read these poems and be dazzled. The magic carpet has left the launchpad. This is wild and lovely poetry to chant in the woods, read in a cafe, and share with only your coolest friends.
Cynthia Kraman

In A Map of the Heavens, Janet Hamill transports us across oceans, continents, constellations, and parking lots with the guile of a true storyteller. Hamill explores the hallucinations, myths, nerve endings, and steganography of a life traveled with a deep knowledge that sometimes mysteries should remain mysterious. Packed with unforgettable imagery, this is a dazzling collection. Enjoy the journey!

Jane Ormerod

To enter Janet Hamill’s Selected Poems is to be inside
a body of internal whirlwinds a language of time melting in a thousand geysers
of raving mystic visions of the releasing heart
erotic wooing sacking cities crumbling into a billion stars.
A modern woman boldly inhaling her life.
A Seer exhaling the universe.
Maureen Owen

About the Authors

Janet Hamill is the author of eight collections of poetry and short fiction-Real Fire, Knock, Tales from the Eternal Caf�, Body of Water, Lost Ceilings, Nostalgia of the Infinite, The Temple, and Troublante. She has released two CDs of spoken word and music in collaboration with the bands Moving Star and Lost Ceilings-Flying Nowhere and Genie of the Alphabet. Her work has been nominated for Pushcart Prizes and the Poetry Society of America's William Carlos Williams Prize. Tales from the Eternal Caf� was named one of the "Best Books of 2014" by Publishers Weekly. A strong proponent of the spoken word, she has performed at The Poetry Project at St. Marks Church, The Walt Whitman Cultural Center, the Bowery Poetry Club, the Knitting Factory, CBGB's Gallery, the Nuyorican Caf�, Central Park Summer Stage, Lowell Celebrates Kerouac, the Andy Warhol Museum, Seattle's Bumbershoot Festival, the Liss Ard Festival in County Cork, Ireland, Patti Smith's Meltdown Festival in London, the Latitude Festival in Southwold, England, and Liverpool's Heartbeats series. In collaboration with the bands Moving Star and Lost Ceilings (formerly named Moving Star) she has released two CD's of spoken word and music, Flying Nowhere (Yes No Maybe Records) and Genie of the Alphabet (Not Records). A documentary about the creative process of Janet Hamill and Lost Ceilings, Bearing Witness, is viewable on You Tube. Hamill has been a writer-in-residence at Naropa University, a teaching assistant at New England College. She has also lectured and taught workshops at the Poetry Project, the College of Poetry, the Seligmann Center, Cabrillo College, London and Liverpool. After residing in NYC for three decades, Hamill presently lives in New York's Hudson Valley, where she is an artistic advisor at the Seligmann Center for the Arts and Director of the Center's literary program MEGAPHONE

Patti Smith (born December 30, 1946)[5] is an American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and poet who became an influential component of the New York City punk rock movement with her 1975 debut album Horses. Called the "punk poet laureate," Smith fused rock and poetry in her work. Her most widely known song is "Because the Night," which was co-written with Bruce Springsteen. It reached number 13 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1978 and number five in the U.K. In 2005, Smith was named a Commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture. In 2007, she was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. On November 17, 2010, Smith won the National Book Award for her memoir Just Kids. The book fulfilled a promise she had made to her former long-time roommate and partner, Robert Mapplethorpe. She placed 47th in Rolling Stone magazine's list of 100 Greatest Artists published in December 2010 and was also a recipient of the 2011 Polar Music Prize.

Bob Holman is an American poet and poetry activist, most closely identified with the oral tradition, the spoken word, and poetry slam. As a promoter of poetry in many media, Holman has spent the last four decades working variously as an author, editor, publisher, performer, emcee of live events, director of theatrical productions, producer of films and television programs, record label executive, university professor, and archivist. He was described by Henry Louis Gates Jr. in The New Yorker as "the postmodern promoter who has done more to bring poetry to cafes and bars than anyone since Ferlinghetti."

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