Literature/Poetry. Winner of the Panhandler Chapbook Contest. Environmental themes with meditations on Time, the Self, the Spirit, and American culture. Judith Baumel, contest judge, states: ..".Hamilton offers a new ambition and a new voice to contemporary poetry. Here is a poet who is witness to the physical world as much as the intellectual ... a great chorus of the loud and the soft, the public, the personal. EARTH SONGS offers energetic and beautifully controlled language and a precise and lyrical eye. We can be grateful to M. Hamilton for this] vision of the world...."