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Martha Deborah Hall's TEARS looks back in joy and sorrow, and looks forward with anticipation and hesitation, a powerful tension.

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.

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Elegy shades into meditation on the present in Martha Deborah Hall's moving NEW HAVEN.

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.

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 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 t...

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 ...

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 Da...

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 childre...

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.

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 poem refers to the narrator's identical twin sister and closest companion who predeceased her, but who she knows will be waiting for her at the end of her life with "a cup of tea in hand." All of the senses are sumptuously attended to in this rich first collec...