poems, winner of the Beatrice Hawley Award.

Forrest Hamer's poems rise out of the place where religion and dancing - spirit and body - join, and in reading Call and Rsponse "We are journeying to the source of all wonder, / We journey by dance. Amen." Amen! We call in celebration. Amen!

-- Andrew Hudgins

Forrest Hamer was born in North Carolina in 1956, and was educated at Yale and at Berkeley. He is a psychologist living and working in Oakland, California; a lecturer in psychology at the University of California, Berkeley; and a candidate at the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institue. This is his first book.