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Donna Hilbert's earlier books include The Congress of Luminous Bodies, from Aortic Books, The Green Season, poems, stories and essays, from World Parade Books, Mansions and Deep Red, from Event Horizon, Transforming Matter and Traveler in Paradise from PEARL Editions. She has poems online at A Year show more of Being Here, Little Eagle's RE/VERSE, Zocalo Public Square, Your Daily Poem, Serving House Journal and monthly, as a contributing writer, at Verse-Virtual. Her work is widely anthologized, most recently in Poetry of Presence, Grayson Books. She has led workshops for both beginners and professional writers in venues as varied as a men's prison, an English public school, and literary programs including Aldeburgh Poetry and Ilkley Literature Festivals in the UK, and PEN Center USA West's Emerging Voices Rosenthal Fellows. She writes and leads private workshops in Long Beach, California, where she makes her home. Learn more at www.donnahilbert.com show less

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Hilbert's poems have a simple grace that makes them both approachable and striking. While some few felt more like broken up prose than I would have preferred, most felt like poems that made every breath, syllable, and space matter in a sort of effortless show of beauty and thought. I will say that the ending section of the book, made up of new poems rather than poems taken from previously published collections, was by far the weakest--short as it was, it rather brought down the whole of the reading experience for me, I have to admit. Still, I'm looking forward to reading more of Hilbert's work and picking up some of the collections that were sampled from here.… (more)
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