“You want to make a representative selection, but at the same time, you want to give a sense of the whole project. I have this big conflict in my writing life that I'm trying to work out all the time.” GivingWritingTryingConflictWork OutWriting Life Author:Barbara Hamby
“I was raised in a strict fundamentalist household, and I always say that gives you a muscle of belief. I want to believe in something, but I don't believe in what my parents believed in. Poetry has taken the place, or I think the arts have taken the place, of religion in my life. I wanted to see how that was working out through the poems.” ThinkingGivingBelieveArtBeliefParentTakenWork OutFundamentalist Author:Barbara Hamby
“Travel is something that I like to do because it gives you lots of images, and it also really makes you think about your own place in the world in a very different way.” ThinkingWorldGivingDifferentMake You Think Author:Barbara Hamby
