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The Holy or the Broken Hallelujah

by Kristina Hakanson
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9781646627578
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Finishing Line Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Finishing Line Press
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 42
  • Original Price: GBP 11.84
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 64 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Subjects & Themes / Family

In this impressive first collection, Kristina Hakanson gives us-in both free verse and lyric prose forms-poems of considerable range and power, most poignantly those about her beloved father's terminal illness. In one, she makes this striking and quintessentially human confession: "I'm about to say goodbye / to my bedridden father, / the first man I loved, / the only one whose heart I refuse to break, / ashamed that I ever did, / if I ever did. / I'm sure I did." Hakanson's work evokes a fraught yet wrenchingly beautiful world-a "heaven's underside" in which "Each sorrow converted to ice / grows warm in the palm of your hand."

-Paulann Petersen, Oregon Poet Laureate Emerita



Both elegiac and celebratory, these poems derive their strength from the real world around us: wooden spoons, egg-beaters, a coffee cup, the teeth of a harrow-touched here and there by an element of the surreal (a wolf in a cello). I admire their clean language and plainspoken balance, from the mundane to the eternal-their realization that "Whole lives are lived on the dirt/ which long ago came from the stars".

-Joseph Millar


Hakanson, Kristina: - Kristina Hakanson is a writer and English teacher who dabbles in photography. A graduate of Pacific University's MFA in Writing program, she served as senior poetry editor for Silk Road. She and her husband, Jonathan Brechner, wrote The Ordinary Glow of Life, a collection of collaborative poetry. Recent poems of hers have appeared in Reunion: The Dallas Review, ellipsis..., NonBinary Review, Broad Street, and Tinderbox. She lives with her husband in Arizona. logic0fwings.wordpress.com

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