Faulkner: Critical Commentary in Verse

Bob Hamblin has managed to combine his passion for poetry with his unparalleled knowledge of Faulkner. These poems are unique, insightful, and eloquent explorations of Faulkner's life, characters, and themes. Reading them is like having a private audience with one of the world's leading experts on a complicated writer. –Chris Rieger, former Director, Center for Faulkner Studies, Southeast Missouri State University, author of Faulkner’s Fashion

It’s all here: the Faulkner of fiction, biography, and autobiography, in poems of revelation and retrospection in Robert W. Hamblin’s wondrous work of a lifetime. I can imagine how the book might be used as an introduction to Faulkner and what he has meant to so many generations of readers. –Carl Rollyson, Professor of Journalism, Baruch College, The City University of New York, biographer, author of The Life of William Faulkner, William Faulkner Day by Day, and William Faulkner On and Off the Page