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. With a brash, bold, invincible voice, her poems
explode off the page in celebrations of living. While the poems
abound in the sheer joy of physical existence, the presence of time
and death renders them deeply human, universal."
-- Candace Bergstrom, Poet and Teacher living in the woods of New
Hampshire
Martha Hall has outlined her mission in life to live strong and
expects others to do likewise. In her poems she advances a new
model for deliberate and conscious aging where action is the key.
Her poems are thought-provoking, striking, and sometimes
surprising. She crisscrosses class and generational divides,
sometimes offering caustic, hard line opinions while at others,
heartwarming gestures of a giving self. Weight of Light is a
collection of intimate, powerful, and inspiring poetry. We witness
the author learn to define herself, find her own path, her own
voice. It's a rewarding read.
-- Beverly Melle, Educator and Recent Friends of the Amherst
Library Artist of the Month Exhibitor
Cover Art: Pigeon Point Lighthouse by Linnea Gershenberg
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