Linda Flaherty Haltmaier
Award-Winning Poet & Author
Poet Laureate Emeritus, Andover, MA
Linda Flaherty Haltmaier
Award-Winning Poet & Author
Poet Laureate Emeritus, Andover, MA
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Now Available! Winner of the 2024 International Book Award for Narrative Poetry
“Prepare to devour Haltmaier’s dazzling new collection in one sitting because you simply. can’t. stop. The poet’s language is delicious, vivid, and evocative––each poem an unexpected delicacy. As you set this book down, you will raise your eyes and behold a new world, a more saturated one, a world where grief and love and pain and beauty all break bread at the same table. And what an exquisite feast. These poems abound in the deepest kind of joy, never perfect, often evasive, always “the crow,/the soil,/the dancing/of ancient stars/across a newborn sky.”
–C.M. Black, Editorial Director, Winter Island Press
Winner of the American BookFest Award for Poetry
"This remarkable collection is as much a celebration of life as it is a poignant exploration of grief. Haltmaier’s poems are both lush and economical. Her images arrest us. Nature is everywhere, and we are constantly touching it with our fingertips and brushing against it with our cheeks. Watch out, reader! These ‘words with glossy berries’ will ‘lure you in’ and have ‘prickers to make you bleed.’ These poems will remake you and set you wandering among the fields, feeling fully alive."
~ Kristin Bock, award-winning author of Cloisters
Winner of the Homebound Publications Poetry Prize
"Haltmaier’s poems capture moments in time, fleeting and beautiful as a hummingbird’s flight. Blending the comic with the tragic, she explores the 'wreckage' of a relationship with the same clear eye as her poems about family life, its joys and sorrows, and about a natural world in which Haltmaier assumes the power to 'roll up the sky,' transporting it and her reader to a new and better place."
~ Claire Keyes, author of What Diamonds Can Do