DUETDUET (VOL 14) CLARK & HAMILTON

DUEDUET vol 14

The second-to-last installment of DUETDUET pairs new work by Jackie Clark and Max Hamilton, two poets whose sensibilities approach one another from opposite directions before quietly dissolving into shared terrain.

Max Hamilton’s poems drift through the world with patient curiosity, where menthol lingers in the throat, pears fall one soft thud at a time, and memory unfolds through lists, static, airplanes, wafer cookies, and impossible distances. The ordinary continually slips into the uncanny, each observation carrying the weight of something just beyond language.

Jackie Clark’s The Lost Poems turns inward, asking what remains after certainty quietly shifts beneath our feet. Attentive to language’s fractures, revisions, and quiet transformations, these poems discover meaning not through resolution but through sustained observation. Clark’s work offers the kind of wisdom that never needs to announce itself.

Read tête-bêche, the collections begin speaking across one another. Hamilton’s wandering consciousness meets Clark’s deliberate inquiry, and together they reveal shared fascinations with memory, perception, and the unstable ways we construct meaning. Somewhere between their voices, a third conversation quietly emerges.

24 pages. Hand sewn. Cover laser printed on craft stock
Layout and design by Chelsea Tadeyeske and Edie Roberts
Printed in June 2026 and officially released on July 15th, 2026

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