Out of Canaan

Mary Stewart Hammond’s poems have appeared in The New Yorker, the Kenyon Review, the Paris Review, the Yale Review, and Ploughshares, among others. She is the author of the collections Out of Canaan and Entering History. Hammond lives in New York City.

"In Mary Stewart Hammond's first book, the telling is a gorgeous, manic outpouring of lyrical narrative... Hammond is an original, witty, lush writer, mature enough to embrace her friends' sufferings, the mixed pleasures of a household with adolescent daughters, the rich torment of family life, her own childhood... There's a largesse to this writer, an irresistible radiance that catches the grief and joy of an examined life." -- Gail Mazur - Boston Globe "Introduces a distinctively energetic Southern voice. Hammond's language fairly crackles with words that 'escape rebellious as steam / from the snap-bean pot.' In addition to weaving rich linguistic textures that offer surprises at nearly every turn. Hammond is a powerful storyteller." -- Virginia Quarterly Review