“Focused on each ‘rib and spine or/ rafter and beam' of language, Hamilton delivers a collection of deceptively brief, lean poems. . . . Strangers' voices drift in and out like mist, and there is always a studied lack of clarity that gives the collection an irresistible tension.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review

“The pulsing motor in each poem is keen intelligence about complex relationship and their unimpeachable truths. It is unlike anything else, Hamilton's fundamental use of soil and earth to make a cradle for significant ideas. These are terse honest emotions, internal struggles as subtext, held up against the simple logic of country life. She takes the rusted machinery of the world and makes it beautiful.” —Washington Independent Review of Books

“Hamilton's writing has been called spare and delicate, but neither of these quite gets at the effect of her poems, which are delicate only in the way a suspension bridge is: neither is marked by unnecessary ornament or fragility, and it would be a mistake to regard either as anything other than rigorously tough.” —Raymond McDaniel, Boston Review

“There is much to be discovered in this collection, where tenderness and detachment, intimacy and distance, conversation and poetry thoughtfully coexist. In Corridor, Saskia Hamilton displays a breadth of historical, poetical, and linguistic awareness I rarely find. I want to read these poems again and again as I look at their resounding, narrow spaces for clues to the humanity there.” —The Rumpus