Disorientation and the Weather by Dorinda Hale

“Dorinda Hale’s poetry has a luminous, intelligent tenderness for our human frailties and a honed blade-edged wit, often in the same poem. Incandescent.”

–Diana Rowan Rockefeller, trustee, The Authors Guild Foundation; former staff editor, The Atlantic Monthly

 “Dori Hale writes brilliantly from a humane point on the mortal compass, a place of compassion, wit, and lyrical dexterity. Her poetry speaks to those who have pondered love, or gloried in the natural beauty of a snowfall, or grieved the loss of someone cherished. Which is to say: all of us.”

–Ann Wadsworth, author of Light, Coming Back

“Dorinda Hale’s poems present cascades of emotion deftly channeled into vivid images. She conveys powerful meaning with stylistic ease.”

–Ann Staffeld, author of Small Compensations