Helen K. Hazard's lyrical poetry explores the joys and tragedies of everyday life with keen insight, compassion and spirituality, expressing beautifully not only her humor and wisdom, but also her prevailing faith in the renewing power of life, even in the face of death.
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Helen K. Hazard was born Helen Latham Kerr in Evanston, Il., in 1925. She contracted polio as a child, participated in an experimental program in Chicago and recovered from the disease after being unable to walk for a year. During her college summers in World War II she worked as an airplane mechanic repairing fighter planes in Coronado, Ca. After earning a B.A. in government from the University of Texas, she became a writer for the Kiplinger organization in Washington, D.C., and worked on the early issues of what became Changing Times magazine. There she met John W. Hazard. They married in 1950 and built Lark's Landing on the Potomac River in Mason's Neck, Va., where they raised seven children. In 1958, after learning the county had no kindergarten program, Helen and friend Harriet Crampton took over the charter of and re-opened the private Gunston Hall School in Fairfax County, Va. Eventually, the school became a full-fledged elementary school specializing in helping children with learning disabilities. Helen taught Greek history and remedial reading and was the school s principal and social worker from 1965 to 1979, when the school closed and its assets were used to endow a scholarship fund. Until her death in 2007, Helen served on the board of the non-profit Gunston Hall School Foundation, which provides financial aid to children with learning disabilities. Helen wrote poetry throughout her life. She also wrote children's books, including Trouble the Cat and The Beaselys.
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A must for your poetry collection,
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Helen K. Hazard's lyrical poetry in FOOTNOTES ALONG THE WAY is both profound and accessible. With a richness of spirit, wisdom and good-natured humor, her poems reflect and inspire reflection on the fundamental questions posed by life and death. Her internal rhyme delights the ear as much as her insights delight the soul. You will find youself reading these poems again and again, and sharing them with friends and family.
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From Beach Sand to Glass,
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This is a jewel of a book. Like lightning transforms beach sand to glass, the poems of Helen Hazard crystalize--with quick fire--the elements that form a meaningful life by reflecting on the many facets of love and loss. Published posthumously, "Footnotes Along the Way" is more than footnotes; this is a collection of footprints from a brave woman's journey on earth. Her lyrical rhyme and windblown passages of time on these shores refrain forever in these pages. You must savor every note.
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The Splendor of the Simply Profound,
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This review is from: Footnotes Along the Way (Perfect Paperback)
I have read "Footnotes Along the Way" several times. Its poems have soothed the anxieties of my old age and the fear of death. Mrs. Helen Hazard's exquisite embroidery of sky, beaches, birds in flight, spring, and fall prepare us for a painless passage through life's great divide--"Windswept and whipped across a thousand leagues, until at last, in mighty crest, on some beribboned sea-drenched sand you die, yet know not death." With her clear, musical rhyme she penetrates and explores life's crucial emotions: love, passion, friendship, the loss of a life's companion, the death of a child. She does it in a seemingly effortless fashion, with the sweep of a true artist. I'm deeply touched by her crystaline lyrics of immense beauty.
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