Books
Shadows Set to Burn
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
Available on Amazon.com
To the Left of the Sun
Winner of the American BookFest Award for Poetry
By turns irreverent, playful, and serious, Haltmaier’s poems explore the phenomena of daily life with a deft clarity that transforms the ordinary into the extra-ordinary. Brimming with nuance and surprise, To the Left of the Sun touches on the themes of solitude and union, love and letting go, and the redemptive power of nature. Haltmaier’s unflinching eye lays bare the hidden miracles in choosing a head of cabbage at the farmer’s market, taking a morning walk, or watching her mother’s decline into dementia. The everyday and the heartrending undergo a light-infusing alchemy in her hands. At its heart, To the Left of the Sun is a portal to a world where wonder, humor, and beauty can be found in even the most unlikely places.
Available at Homebound Publications and Amazon.com.
Rolling up the Sky
Winner of the Homebound Publications Poetry Prize
"The poems in Rolling up the Sky tell stories about mothers and daughters, about struggle, about grief but no matter how painful their occasions, these poems are full of warmth and humor. Haltmaier is so honest in her probing of experience and so attentive to the many minute phenomena of the world around her that to me, Rolling up the Sky seems like one long love poem to life itself. Brava!
–James Arthur, author of Charms Against Lightning
Available at Homebound Publications, Amazon.com, and Barnes & Noble.
Catch and Release
"We can’t help but see our own reflection in these tightly crafted poems – the soul searching, the exquisite heartaches, the wounds we all share, yet Haltmaier is a hopeful survivor, stubborn and gracious. She has captured, in these suspended moments, a life well lived. She knows her way around this ghostly landscape and with her as our guide we all stand to learn a thing or two."
–Kevin Carey, author of The One Fifteen to Penn Station
Available at Finishing Line Press.
Wilderness: Voices of the Sacred Landscape
Available at Amazon.com.