In her commanding second full-length collection, Martha Deborah Hall offers readers more of what they have come to love about her poetry: elegant craft, precise detail, concise language and considerable emotion. These poems are concerned with the every day, with the acutely experienced moments that make up a full life, replete with joys and grief. Here "red leaves checker lawns," "a snowplow clangs it's iron song," "lipstick's smeared from so-longs," and "a first dahlia beats through the soil." When you visit My Side of the Street arrive hungry because you'll be treated to a feast of...
In her commanding second full-length collection, Martha Deborah Hall offers readers more of what they have come to love about her poetry: elegant craf...
The author writes evocative, succinct, graphic poems portraying the lives of five women who survived great hardship. Through carefully crafted persona prose poetry, Hall captures the anguish of these women who despite their tumultuous childhoods achieved prominence. Hall's bountiful reservoir of metaphor is unmatched. - Helen Jackman Each poem reflects change and transition as the women selected for this book of poetry face the obstacles and the triumphs of their lives. Hall offers a unique perspective as she unravels the universal angst that propels the creative spirit. These women...
The author writes evocative, succinct, graphic poems portraying the lives of five women who survived great hardship. Through carefully crafted persona...
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...
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 ...
