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Martha Deborah Hall
Martha Deborah Hall’s TEARS looks back in joy and sorrow, and looks forward with anticipation and hesitation, a powerful tension.
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Family, memory, love, sorrow: these are the stuff of life and poems, and Martha Deborah Hall captures their essence in words before her ink runs dry.
Martha Deborah Hall’s poems tunnel into the heart’s upper country, the hidden place where repose may be found and all is felt and revealed.
One woman in twelve will be stalked in her lifetime.– 2000 Department of Justice study
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Elegy shades into meditation on the present in Martha Deborah Hall’s moving NEW HAVEN.
The poems of Martha Deborah Hall’s collection tarry over memory and experience, finishing a stitch here and a seam there, crafting a seamless whole from the fabric of a life.
The poems of Martha Deborah Hall’s collection resist the riptide of rage, that sudden surge that can sweep away all in its path, as they step forward, day by day.
The wry poems of this collection establish a warmth, an intimacy, against what is often the cold and violent world outside.
The pungent poems of this collection by Martha Deborah Hall reflect the poet’s wit, keen eye, and bracing humor.
The poems in this collection are always looking, seeking, for the spark that brings the world alive.
Martha Deborah Hall’s Two Grains In Time is a journey from innocence through loss toward wisdom. These are poems of careful observation. The voice is direct, intimate, certain. The title…
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 author writes evocative, succinct, graphic poems portraying the lives of five women who survived great hardship. Through carefully crafted personal prose poetry, Hall captures the anguish of these women…
In her commanding second full-length collection, Hall offers poetry concerned with the every day, with the acutely experienced moments that make up a full life, replete with joys and grief.
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…
