"Hamby's poems are good-natured, gossipy, and fun . She attempts to render in verse the near chaos of perception that typifies human consciousness as it careers through a lifetime's worth of unruly accident . With its delight in sensuality and in the sensuality of speech above all, with its yoking together of serious and casual concerns, with its steady stream of confidences occasioned by irruptions of memory, there is a lot to like in Hamby's verse . You might come away from 'On the Street of Divine Love' thinking its author is not only an excellent poet but would also make an ideal conversationalist over dinner. We can't all wangle the invitation, but we can all read her quick-witted, exuberant, and molto simpatico book." --Yale Review.