Transforming Matter [Paperback]

Donna Hilbert (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 20, 1999

A collection of poems revolving around marriage and a husband's untimely death.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"Just over a year since Donna Hilbert's husband Larry was tragically killed comes the amazing Transforming Matter. This collection examines faith, grief, the afterlife, and, most poignantly, how to love the ones who are no longer here. Though Hilbert grapples with weighty and difficult subjects, her tone is refreshingly anti-maudlin. Precise details of Southern California so infuse the spirit of these poems that in every one is a spark of light and even joy." -- Denise Duhamel

At Thirteen I Meet Holden
August
Beach House Facing South
City Of Lakewood
Consciousness Raising
Craving
The Dead
Dear Heart
Dove
Even Then
February, Los Angeles
Green Wedding
Grief Becomes Me
In Quintana Roo
Jesus In A Plastic Jacket
Lesson
Morning
Movie
Novel
Opera
Party
Peninsula
Play
Poem
Poem To My First Love
Proof
Queens
Rank
Reef
Ring
Seattle
Short Story
Sleep
Smoke
Sweat-suit
The Swimmer
Telecast
Trace
Vigilance
What I Know
Word
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

About the Author

Donna Hilbert lives in Long Beach, California, and is the author of two previous books of poetry.

Product Details

• Paperback: 64 pages
• Publisher: Pearl Editions (September 20, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1888219149
• ISBN-13: 978-1888219142
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.3 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,132,425 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Superb Collection by a Master Poet, January 22, 2002

By 

Judith Searle (Santa Monica, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Transforming Matter (Paperback)

The sensuality, wit, elegance, and heartbreak in these poems reflects a complex woman and a brilliant poet at the height of her powers. Playfulness, anger, compassion, rue, and despair abut one another continually in Hilbert's responses to the sudden loss of her beloved husband. Her exquisite poems directly confront the beauty and terror inherent in the human condition, and her simplicity and understatement are often unnerving.

5.0 out of 5 stars A Superb Collection from a Master Poet, January 22, 2002

By 

Judith Searle (Santa Monica, CA United States) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

This review is from: Transforming Matter (Paperback)

The sensuality, wit, elegance, and heartbreak in these poems reflects a complex woman and a brilliant poet at the height of her powers. Playfulness, anger, compassion, rue, and despair abut one another continually in Hilbert's responses to the sudden loss of her beloved husband. Her exquisite poems directly confront the beauty and terror inherent in the human condition, and her simplicity and understatement are often unnerving.