Christine Hamm / The Animal Husband

 Hamm's delicious sense of humor, balanced as it is by her tenderness and disdain for sentimentality, makes this collection truly absorbing and intellectually as well as emotionally far reaching...brilliant, severe little dramas." --Small Spiral Notebook Hamm's familial explorations are daring, often tragic, and the poems are the "dark star" we willingly sail towards. --Amanda Auchter, Pebble Lake Review a review in Galatea Resurrects: http://galatearesurrection5.blogspot.com/2007/02/animal-husband-by-christine-hamm.html Big Wing Who are you? You are “husband.”What is “husband?” “Husband” is made out of rubberbands and salt. Husband floats in most bodies of water, except for Lake Michigan, in which he sinks. Husband flew to this country, used a motor boat in the shape of a swan when his arms got tired. Husband has feathers for hair, slight webbing between his fingers and toes. Husband used to be something else, something low and scaley, but husband tried to reform. Husband has tee