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The Collected Poems of Hazel Hall (Paperback)
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During the short span of her career, Hazel Hall became one of the
West's outstanding literary figures, a poet whose fierce,
crystalline verse was frequently compared with that of Emily
Dickinson. Her three books, published to critical acclaim in the
1920's, are reissued here in paperback for the first time.
Together, they reintroduce an immediate and intensely honest voice,
one that speaks to us with an edgy modernity.Confined to a
wheelchair since childhood, Hall viewed life from the window of an
upper room in her family's house in Portland, Oregon. To better
observe passersby on the sidewalk, she positioned a small mirror on
her windowsill. Hall was an accomplished seamstress: her fine
needlework helped to support the family and provided a vivid body
of imagery for her precisely crafted, often gorgeously embellished
poems. Hall's writings - her mirror trained on the world - convey
the dark undertones of the lives of working women in the early
twentieth century, while bringing into focus her own private,
reclusive life - her limited mobility, her isolation and
loneliness, her gifts with needlework and words, and her exquisite
grief. In his introduction to this volume, John Witte examines
Hall's brief and brilliant career and highlights her remarkably
modern sensibilities, showing her to be a poet for all time.
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