Insomnia in another town - lisa m. hase-jackson

From the opening poem of Lisa Hase-Jacksons impactful collection, Insomnia in Another Town, we learn that There is no small grief.

all are interconnected.

These poems, cloaked in memory and the unmaking and re-making of family, travel us through the harvest of a poets life.

Like the farms she made grow, this book tills the soil of a human soul and all the many experiences that make it.

In pantoums, free verse, and prose poems, Hase-Jackson demonstrates the way that every lived experience weaves into a root system that bears unique fruit, singular as our heartbeats, our winding fingerprints.

-Ashley M.

Jones, poet laureate of Alabama.