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In her sixth full-length collection, Martha Deborah Hall explores the shifting lights and shadows that fall on a woman in her so-called golden years, offering us a voice that sweeps the full register from sassy to gritty to tender. In elegant free verse and stunning twists on traditional forms, she gives us a darkly shining world, deftly measuring out "the weight of light"--and life.
-- Kate Gleason, Author of Measuring the Dark and Reading Darwin While My Father Dies, Director of Writers Submit

Martha Deborah Hall's Weight of Light is playful, vibrant--both witty and poignant....

Martha Deborah Hall goes through the major decades of her life and transforms singular moments into images and lines that speak with a voice that is raw, spare, luminous. She holds the mirror of reflection up to us as we see what we have overlooked as she expresses her innermost feelings on love, faith, life, artful living, mortality and self-actualization as daughter, wife, mother, friend, artist and independent woman. As the years pass, she chooses to leave behind the messy, burned parts, the disappointments, the unloved parts, the betrayals, and instead embraces the strength, hope and...

One woman in twelve will be stalked in her lifetime.
-- 2000 Department of Justice study

Making Sense
Instead of shelling out hard-earned money for a lawyer to deal with this mail-tampering, "Dime Store Talc" stalker, I could've paid my grandchild's future college tuition, or put a sizable down payment on a second condo. I could've purchased a new Saab, five "Evenings in Paris," some shares of Exxon stock, or a motorboat which my children could have used to water ski on their favorite lake. I could've paid for a living room of "Woodhue" vintage antiques, or four years of...