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Grant Tracey, prose editor of North American Review, said of Into the Thicket that the "...Mattie Solis stories are achingly poignant. Fiercely independent, Mattie is constantly torn between a desire to be loved and a need to find time alone, to find solitude in the stillness of ehr thicket, a backyard National Preserve that ehr house is locked in. She's a character of integrity, charm, and sadness. And the other stories are damned good, too: packed full of offbeat details, humor, and the wounds and wonder that make us human. Exquisite."
Suzanne Roberts, nature writer and poet, says of The Big Thicket: Requiem and Redemption that “H. Palmer Hall’s The Big Thicket: Requiem and Redemption weaves family stories with natural history to create an homage to place. This walking meditation explores our connection to nature, while recognizing that a place of natural beauty can also be home to human suffering, a landscape haunted by a racist past and present. Hall combines an eye for detail with poetic musicality to create an elegy for what’s been lost, as well as an appreciation for what remains.”
H. Palmer Hall'scollection of poems, Foreign and Domestic, was been released by Turning Point Books, a Division of WordTech Communications, in Cincinnati, Ohio in 2009. This collection of poems, as Marian Haddad describes his most recent book, in The Texas Observer, "takes these dream moments that swim into each other, allowing the reader to wade through his dreams. His ability to create place is astonishing, allowing the reader to feel the murky reality of non-reality, where nonsensical things make their own sense." As MacArthur ("genius") Award winner Jonathan Shay says of his Vietnam poetry (much of which is included in this volume), "I can't say it better than a Vietnam combat vet responding to one of H. Palmer Hall's poems on the Internet: 'Outstanding! Just outstanding!'" You can read a profile of the author and of his own press, Pecan Grove Press, in The San Antonio Express-News .
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Coming to Terms, a collection of memoiristic essays, has been described by Jeanne Emmons, editor of Briar Cliff Review, as being "written in a clear, distinct prose with a dry wit and a refreshing absence of hype." She adds that "these essays touch on racism, injustice, class snobbery and pure stupidity. Hall's occassional swipes of malice are reserved for the rich, the powerful and the cruel; the pervasive impression is one of quiet kinship with other struggling humans." Will Hochman, poetry editor of WLA: War, Literature and the Arts, says that "these essays reach deeply into the cultural zeitgeist and should be required reading for anyone interested in knowing oneself. [He] not only describes his interior struggles and growth, but he offers intelligent signposts and guiding insights for his boomer generation and its children." Edward Byrne, editor of Valparaiso Poetry Review adds that "these writings offer a familiar and friendly voice that always appears authentic and reliable in its storytelling, providing enjoyable and enriching reading."
To read a profile of the author (in The Texas Observer, January 11, 2008) and some of his books, including Coming to Terms, please click here.
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The first of H. Palmer Hall's six books, The Librarian in the University was published by Scarecrow Press (Metuchen, NJ: 1990). The next, A Measured Response was published by Pecan Grove Press in 1994 before he became a part of the press. His third and fourth books,From the Periphery: poems and essays (1996) and Deep Thicket & Still Waters(1999) were published by Chili Verde Press. Reflections on Publishing, Writing and Other Things was designed for those occasions when he is asked to speak to writers about publishing. To Wake Again, a collection of poems responding to the two Persian Gulf Wars, was published by Pudding House Publications in 2005. Reflections from Pete's Pond(2007) was published for friends and other people who have become enamored of the National Geographic Society's 24/7 live broadcast of a pond in the Mashatu Game Reserve in Botswana, Africa, and who, like the author, spend much to much time watching the animals come to the pond to drink.
All of his books are also available from Pecan Grove Press.
Reflections from Pete's Pond
H. Palmer Hall
$5.00
And FREE, read
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To Wake Again
H. Palmer Hall
$8.95
isbn: 1-58998-323-8
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A Measured Response
H. Palmer Hall$12.00
ISBN: 1-877603-16-3---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
From the Periphery: Poems and Essays
H. Palmer Hall$6.00
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ISBN: 0-9640612-4-4
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Deep Thicket & Still Waters
H. Palmer Hall$6.00
ISBN: 0-9640612-7-9
