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Linda's PoetryPoetry by Linda M. Hasselstrom
Linda "handles words the way she handles cattle, with a hard love that grows from her daily, working familiarity with the austere life of western Dakota around the Black Hills. Though far from tranquil, her poems have an impressive beauty..." -- from a book review by Dave Pichaske, Spoon River Poetry Press What's Here? Dirt Songs: A Plains Duet A new book of poems! Coming in 2011. Bitter Creek Junction Also available as a limited edition hardcover Audiobook of Bitter Creek Junction Listen to Linda read the complete book on cd or cassette Dakota Bones The collected early poems of Linda When a Poet Dies A special limited edition from Red Dragonfly Press 
Linda digging some horsetail plant, 2009
by Twyla M. Hansen and Linda M. Hasselstrom Linda and Twyla, a poet fom Nebraska, are collaborating on a book of poetry about farming (Twyla's poems) and ranching (Linda's poems). Twyla wrote: Linda and I are greatly influenced by our upbringing and on-going involvement in the rural areas of eastern Nebraska and western South Dakota. We have known and admired each other’s writing for a number of years, and recently came up with the idea of putting together a duo collection loosely based on the theme of farm and ranch, resulting in this two-part collection. Twyla M. Hansen and Linda M. Hasselstrom reflect the prairie’s influence in these masterful poems, celebrating sky and water and soil, and their love of all things green and blooming, feathered and furred, farm and ranch, wild and domesticated, warm and breathing. Dirt Songs will be published in 2011 by The Backwaters Press. We'll get a cover photo and other details here as soon as possible. Meanwhile, the photo at the right is of Linda digging some horsetail plant from a dirt road in one of her pastures. She transplanted the horsetail into her rock garden by Windbreak House. After a hard, cold winter she isn't sure yet if it survived. We'll keep you posted. For more information on the book and the publisher: The Backwaters Press Greg Kosmicki, Editor/Publisher 3502 North 52nd Street Omaha, NE 68104-3506 (402) 451-4052 (submit manuscripts by invitation only) back to top 
Poetry Published 2000 72 pages size: 6 X 9 $12.95 – paperback with full color jacket ISBN 0-931271-53-3 Also available as a limited-edition hardcover and as an audiobook. Keep scrolling down. 
$20.00 – hardcover limited edition ISBN 0-931271-54 212 signed, numbered copies; no jacket. 72 pages size: 6.25 X 9.25 The limited edition hardcover (shown here) is dark purple with gold lettering. It looks much better in person! Bitter Creek Junction
* Wyoming State Historical Society: Fine Arts Award, 2000. * National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum: Wrangler Award for best poetry book, 2000. * Women Writing the West: Willa Award Finalist, 2001. The West found in these poems is neither the mythical Old West nor the New West of ranchettes and trophy homes. Whether “Making Chokecherry Jam” joined by spirits of departed grandmothers; rethinking a thirty year old vow in “The Empty Highway, The Unwritten Poem;” seeing the humor in an “International Incident” at a prairie dog town; or confronting the darkness, violence and abuse lingering in “Bitter Creek Junction” and elsewhere, Linda’s aria is set to the rhythms of the authentic West, laced with lyrical realism, and distilled to the sharp crispness of a plains morning. Linda has copies numbered #109 through #112, and #114 through #116 (out of 212 copies) of the limited edition hardcover of Bitter Creek Junction. High Plains Press may have some copies still available as well. Please note: This book is also available on audiocassette, read by the author; see below. Published by: High Plains Press P.O. Box 123 Glendo WY 82213 phone: (307) 735-4370 or (800) 552-7819 Fax: (307) 735-4590 website: www.highplainspress.com back to top 
Hear Linda's interpretation of her own poetry. The entire text of the book read by the author; color insert with table of contents. $ 8.00 – Cassette tape $12.00 – CD No ISBN number Book on Tape: Bitter Creek Junction
The entire text of the book read by the author, Linda M. Hasselstrom. "...Nobody writes better than Linda Hasselstrom about the grinding chores, economic instability, and deep satisfactions of contemporary ranching. But in these poems, Hasselstrom goes beyond branding and mending fences....Here the old west and the new cohabit uneasily." [Edith Rylander, author of Dancing Back the Cranes] Please note: For more information on this title, including its list of awards, see write-up, above. $8.00 – Cassette tape $12.00 – CD Distributed by: Windbreak House (with High Plains Press) P.O. Box 169 Hermosa, SD 57744 voice mail: (605) 255-4064 website: www.windbreakhouse.com e-mail: info@windbreakhouse.com back to top 
Poetry Published 1993; reprinted 166 pages size: 5½ X 8½ $9.95 – paperback ISBN 0-944024-23-8 Dakota Bones: The Collected Poems of Linda Hasselstrom
Here are Linda’s observations on the past, present and future of her life in the West, touching on local history (“Homesteading in Dakota”), her childhood (“Tomboy”), ranching (“Rancher Roulette”), living on the land (“Now I Know Grouse”), lessons learned from older relatives (“Handbook to Ranching”), and the unanticipated changes in her life (“Walking the Dog”). Dakota Bones contains the complete texts of Linda’s earlier work, Caught By One Wing (1984, reprinted 1990) and Roadkill (1987), both out of print, plus about 30 pages of new poems, including the perennial favorite, “Mulch.” With preface, alphabetical index of poem titles, and author biography. Published by: Plains Press (formerly Spoon River Poetry Press) Box 6 Granite Falls, MN 56241 (507) 537-6463 or (612) 564-2424 e-mail: Pichaske@southwest.msus.edu back to top When a Poet Dies When a poet dies nothing happens. A lesser poet breakfasting on coffee and a cherry strudel picks up a newspaper, turns pages to pass time. After breakfast she will sit down to write. Thus begins the one-poem book "When a Poet Dies." Perhaps this is a tribute to the poet William Stafford (Jan 1914--Aug 1993), or perhaps it’s just a darn good story about poets and how they affect the world. This is a limited edition printed from Melior type on Fox River Olde white vellum, hand-pressed by Scott King of Red Dragonfly Press-- a “micro-press” affiliated with the Anderson Center, Minnesota. www.reddragonflypress.org The first printing in 2004 sold out. This second printing, done in 2006, is a slightly more humble version. 220 copies were printed, though the colophon states 250 copies-- according to Scott King, that line was cast before the paper was counted. Oops. Published by Red Dragonfly Press Distributed by: Linda M. Hasselstrom Books PO Box 169 Hermosa SD 57744 (605) 255-4064 www.windbreakhouse.com info@windbreakhouse.com One sharp-eyed reader discovered a typo in this edition. Can you find it? back to top |
