Books & Chapbooks

Please feel free to use the PDFs below for any purpose you’d like, but especially for teaching. To request a digital version of Lilacs or This Reasonable Habit, email me at rainer.diana.hamilton@gmail.com.

THIS REASONABLE HABIT

(with Violet Spurlock)

Spunk Editions, 2/28/2026
Purchase: Spunk

In This Reasonable Habit, Violet and Rainer, on the phone, become the hosts of an imaginary summit. Their 26 attendees—A to Z—disagree about casualwear, animal metaphors, fascist art, bodily autonomy, and other everyday problems. This narrative poem takes the form of panels, with poets answering questions like: What makes sex good? Is ‘shyness’ a moral failing? What does my nipple piercing mean for your nipples? And how have you been, lately?

LILACS

Krupskaya, 11/1/2025
Purchase: Asterism

In Lilacs, syringa vulgaris gives its name to a form of long poem that promotes sense memory. Here, we have one lilac for each of the senses, and a sixth for love, which synthesizes them all.