Colin Hamilton has helped create libraries, artist housing projects, parks, and a center for dance. He is the author of a novel, The Thirteenth Month, and a poetry chapbook. He lives in St. Paul.
In Hamilton’s metafictional work, an unnamed librarian reflects on books pulled from the library’s shelves and relegated to obscurity—and, by extension, the purposes of libraries in general... An enchanting discussion of the many books that inevitably vanish.
Hamilton writes with admirable grace, clarity, and appetite...