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Dry Lightning
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781639806980
Publisher: Kelsay Books
Published: Feb 19 2025
Pages: 56
Weight: 0.19
Height: 0.13 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Dry Lightning begins with yearning: I could have been anything. Drawn to beekeeping in Wyoming, Hale discovers stings of all sorts: in apiculture, in barrooms, in the sun-struck sky. What matters / is how the light passes through, she asserts. These poems read like lyrics to western country songs, the ones about wide open spaces between people and the tricks we learn to get by and along. Stories abound about people-Larry, Jenny, Keith, Ruth, and Carl-and what it's like in a place like Wyoming-snow in summer, relentless wind, talking hunting. These are cold-eyed depictions, wise to the foibles and duplicities of human nature. In fact, there's a lovely pantoum that ought to be set to music. Pinky's Saloon and Silver Dollar Café have us firmly planted in cowboy territory.
-Richard Waring, author of What Love Tells Me
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