Rest of US

Richard Hamilton's debut collection, Rest of US, examines the ways race, class, and gender intersect to expand our notion of personhood and peopled responses to racism, human exploitation, violence, and trauma. It is a meditation on how one holds hurt, grows tired, weeps and breaks down, fights back, harnesses anger or seeks blood recompense for the atrocities. As a Black queer, gender non-conforming, disabled person whose spent much of his adult life as an itinerant worker in the service industry, indifferently housed, the collection takes seriously the shared struggle among a motley crew grappling with precarity and survival.