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Come Before Winter is an invitation written with a keen and pressing awareness of time passing, measured, and marked by the turning of seasons. Like the pastoral letter from Paul to Timothy, from which the title is taken, these poems arrive as exhortations to the reader to meditate, as Emerson says, on "the flux of all things.

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Ken Hada's Not Quite Pilgrims presents a natural world brimming with promise: there are owls in the trees, trout in the rivers, and wild geese in "feral skies", there is a "chestnut mare" leaning over the fence that contains her, there is the weighted and meaningful "stillness of stars." In such a place, the shimmering fish pulled briefly from its cool stream into the bright air serves as confirmation that the humble fisherman belongs, and tha...

From the prologue poem "Bring an Extry Mule" through the shaped memories and imaginings of boyhood and to the affirmations of the "dignity of work" of ordinary men and women in the nation's heartland, Ken Hada's new collection tells the truth. There is a profound authenticity of voice in these pages, an honesty of character, a wonderful sense of place and time, all underlined by both a lyrical joy and a kind of boisterous sadness for things an...

These poems, acting as spare parts in themselves, go into the making of one smooth-running, powerful engine. --Diane Glancy, author of Pushing the BearIn these poignant poems, Hada probes the natural and human worlds with equal candor, forcefulness, and literary artistry. His canvas is broad, and he paints it with rare compassion, grit, and unblinking emotional honesty. This is a book to read and return to, again and again, for the little triu...

In this breathtakingly beautiful book, brothers Duane and Ken Hada pay tribute to Arkansas' White River in watercolors and poetry. They know the river like they know each other: they grew up on its banks and have fly-fished and meditated along most every inch of it. With the Hada brothers as your guides, you'll experience a journey that is at once an eco-travelogue, an artistic tour-de-force, and a spiritual awakening. Duane Hada is not only a...

With none of the cloying sentimentality of some so-called "nature poets, " Hada writes of the natural world as we actually experience it. Few poets since Robert Frost have spoken as clearly and movingly about our attraction to and alienation from the natural world that surrounds us even when we can't be said to be fully in it. In these poems, the speaker is both the man standing on his stoop "looking up at stars" as "tree frogs chortle" and th...