What I Did There - Softcover

Hansel, Pauletta

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1933675594 ISBN 13: 9781933675596

Publisher: Dos Madres Press, 2011

Poetry. "Hansel takes the stuff of her life—that first person world—and spins a web which takes in all of us who have lived awhile. We travel through her poems blessed 'with light for (our) journey,' feeling not like voyeurs but companions for whom, Hansel claims, 'I must still give thanks.' Enlarged by our journey, we offer our thanks back to her"—Dana Wildsmith.

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About the Author:

Pauletta Hansel's poetry has been featured recently in journals including Wind, ABZ Journal, Southern Women's Review, Still: The Journal, The Mom Egg, Penwood Review, and Appalachian Journal, and anthologized in Motif: Come What May and Boomtown: the Queens MFA Tenth Anniversary Celebratory Anthology. Collections include Divining, (WovenWord Press, 2001) First Person (Dos Madres Press, 2007), The Lives We Live in Houses (Wind Publications, 2011), and WHAT I DID THERE (Dos Madres Press, 2011). She is a current editor of Pine Mountain Sand and Gravel, the literary publication of Southern Appalachian Writers Cooperative. Pauletta received her MFA from Queens University of Charlotte. She lives in Cincinnati with her husband, Owen Cramer.

Review:

Hansel takes the stuff of her life- that first person world- and spins a web which takes in all of us who have lived awhile. We travel through her poems blessed with light for (our) journey , feeling not like voyeurs but companions for whom, Hansel claims, I must still give thanks. Enlarged by our journey, we offer our thanks back to her. --Dana Wildsmith author of One Good Hand

This work is Pauletta Hansel s poetic record of a journey, one of discovery and reflection about her origins, family, work, children, love. Her road is sometimes jagged, rarely certain, and because of this, is courageous and honest in its quest for meaning, purpose and peace. --Joseph Enzweiler author of A Winter on Earth

These are poems of a wonderful grace, simplicity, and discipline. Each is cut fine as a jewel. Each takes a perfectly executed leap from the mundane. There is grief here, but something else as well. In a world of poetic lament, it is a joy to find poems that lift us into the poet s joy. --Michael Henson author of The Tao of Longing & The Body Geographic and Crow Call

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