Will There Also Be Singing? contains poems of witness and protest exploring personal culpability in current social injustices and divisions while examining the complicated grief about a land she loves and for whose future she fears.
Pauletta Hansel
Heartbreak Tree is a poetic exploration of the intersection of gender and place in Appalachia. “There is a road, but the road is still inside you,” the mature Hansel tells the girl she was, encouraging her: “You are trying. Remember.”