Alfred Starr Hamilton (June 14, 1914 – 2005) was an American

poet A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator ( thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems (oral or writte ...

. A lifelong resident of Montclair,

New Jersey New Jersey is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States. It is bordered on the north and east by the state of New York; on the east, southeast, and south by the Atlantic Ocean; on the west by the Delaware ...

, Hamilton contributed to many small presses, including Epoch, New Directions, Foxfire, New Letters, Archive, Poetry Now,

American Poetry Review ''The American Poetry Review'' (''APR'') is an American poetry magazine printed every other month on tabloid-sized newsprint. It was founded in 1972 by Stephen Berg and Stephen Parker in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The magazine's editor is Elizab ...

and Greenfield Review. His work has been championed by Jonathan Williams and

Ron Silliman Ron Silliman (born August 5, 1946) is an American poet. He has written and edited over 30 books, and has had his poetry and criticism translated into 12 languages. He is often associated with language poetry. Between 1979 and 2004, Silliman wr ...

and his poetry was included in the first issue of

Thomas Merton Thomas Merton (January 31, 1915 – December 10, 1968) was an American Trappist monk, writer, theologian, mystic, poet, social activist and scholar of comparative religion. On May 26, 1949, he was ordained to the Catholic priesthood and giv ...

's ''Monk's Pond''. The first full-length collection of his poetry (and the only one to appear in Hamilton’s lifetime) was T''he Poems of Alfred Starr Hamilton'', published in 1970 by

The Jargon Society The Jargon Society is an independent press founded by the American poet Jonathan Williams. Jargon is one of the oldest and most prestigious small presses in the United States and has published seminal works of the American literary avant-garde, i ...

as Jargon 49.

Bibliography

*''Sphinx'' (1968) *''The Poems of Alfred Starr Hamilton'' (1970) (ASIN: B000FAC1IY) *''The Big Parade'' (1982) *''A Dark Dreambox of Another Kind: The Poems of Alfred Starr Hamilton'' (2013) ()

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Alfred Starr Hamilton

Guide to the Alfred Starr Hamilton Papers 1963-2015
at th
University of Chicago Special Collections Research Center
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