These poems speak from a place both ours and our parents, and their parents; Mrs. Halme has exploded onto the literary scene with an historical grace unlike any other contemporary poet today. Her lines preform true magic, and allow the present to speak with the past in all its misery, confusion, and brilliance. Combining the fabulous with the tragic, the beautiful and the mysterious, Kathleen Halme makes us aware of our current selves, forces our personal moments into the glory of the communal experience, and allows us to believe in ourselves, and our direction. These poems must endure us, must absolve the broken heart in all of us.

Kathleen Halme's Equipoise is a wonderful book of poetry infused with imagery that brings the book alive for her readers. Her beach imagery, especially, is amazing, from the ocean that "...ate the gazebo at the fat beach" to "the live oaks dangling with Spanish moss" along the swamps. Halme paints beautiful pictures with her images, while addressing such varied subjects as autonomy, love, rape, nature, and mistakes. I would highly recommend this book to anyone intersted in poetry.

Outstanding work overall. The sounds attached to each other and almost poured themselves onto the page, and kept me reading. Even unpleasant pictures were painted beautifully. How anybody can make me smile watching a snake ingest another is beyond me, but it happened. Halme's work in Equipoise manipulates almost everything one can do with the letter "s" and the sound of it. Halme shapes water and color much the same way Doty does light. Equipoise is plain English constructed in ingenious ways, molding connections between the entirely unrelated. Impressive and pleasant.