There is a band of western writers today examining where their region has come from and where it’s headed. To this reader were instructive, intelligent, real, and both artistically and emotionally moving.īrad Knickerbocker, Christian Science Monitor She works every day on her ranch, but she also publishes at least one good book a year. Hasslestrom is living proof that literature can flourish without a steady supply of grants, fellowships, five-figure advances, national awards, and comfortable sinecures. Death, isolation, and hard work are the major themes in the poems, but mingled with stern subject matter are reminders of what makes the effort worthwhile: sunsets and shimmering grass, rodeos and lemon pies, ‘a single lilac shoot beside a rain-pooled rock.’ Her images are stark, exposed, down to the bone.
HAPPY BONES POEM PLUS
This place-driven collection of two previously published books of poetry plus thirty new poems vividly expresses the poet's ranching experiences, her complicated, sometimes difficult, often heartening personal relationships, and the western South Dakota landscape. Plains Press (formerly Spoon River Poetry Press)Ĭharles Woodard, Distinguished Professor of English, South Dakota State University You may order the book directly from the publisher, especially if you are buying in bulk or wholesale. You may order the book from Linda and she will autograph it for you. Poetry, Published 1993 by Spoon River Poetry Press reprinted Here are Linda’s observations on the past, present and future of her life in the West, touching on local history (“Homesteading in Dakota”), her childhood (“Tomboy”), ranching (“Rancher Roulette”), living on the land (“Now I Know Grouse”), lessons learned from older relatives (“Handbook to Ranching”), and the unanticipated changes in her life (“Walking the Dog”).ĭakota Bones: The Collected Poems of Linda Hasselstrom The book contains the complete texts of Linda’s earlier work, Caught By One Wing (1984, reprinted 1990) and Roadkill (1987), both out of print, and adds 28 previously unpublished poems (including the perennial favorite, “Mulch”), a preface, a brief autobiographical sketch, and an alphabetical index of titles. Dakota Bones collects the poems of rancher-poet-essayist Linda M.
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