The collected poems of Hazel Hall

the long version

"After a half-century of neglect, Hazel Hall's poetry has in recent years attracted a new generation of grateful readers. During the short span of her career. Hall became one of the West's outstanding literary figures, a poet whose fierce, crystalline verse was frequently compared with that of Emily Dickinson. Her three books, published to critical acclaim in the 1920s, are collected here for the first time. Together, they reintroduce an immediate and intensely honest voice, one that speaks to us with an edgy modernity." "Hall's writings - her mirror trained on the world - convey the dark undertones of the lives of working women in the early twentieth century, while bringing into focus her own private, reclusive life - her limited mobility, her isolation and loneliness, her gifts with needlework and words, and her exquisite grief."--BOOK JACKET.