The Green Season by Donna Hilbert

Recovery. Renewal. Romance. Contentment. Acclaimed poet Donna Hilbert explores and embraces them all in THE GREEN SEASON (November 2008, World Parade Books). Inspired by the miracle of finding and feeling love again after the death of her husband, this collection affirms Hilbert's gift for transforming deeply personal events into common experiences and universal emotions. While many of 39 new poems resound with messages of hope and testaments to pure, simple happiness, others confront the reality of fear, sorrow, longing, loneliness, and dread-the inescapable stuff of life after loss.

In THE GREEN SEASON, Hilbert grapples with moving forward without letting go of the past, learning how to love a dead lover, and living in the midst of bliss with a searing, sliced open heart. Offering detours along the journey, poems also revisit tragic relatives and battles with in-laws; revel in small pleasures (like licking a Drumstick, "king of ice cream novelties" or spending an evening with woman's best friend, an unfussy standard French poodle); and flirt with the profound and the surreal (in her vision of heaven, for one, Hilbert wears white Armani, eats chocolate truffles, and gets her servings of fruit from Cosmos and cabernet).

Interweaving dry wit and whimsy with incisive observations, haunting images, and deeply affecting emotion, THE GREEN SEASON secures Donna Hilbert's reputation as a major poet of our times and lives.

About the Author
DONNA HILBERT was born in the Red River Valley of Oklahoma but has lived most of her life in Southern California. She is a graduate of California State University in Long Beach, where she now makes her home. In addition to several volumes of poetry, she is the author of a collection of short stories, Women Who Make Money and the Men Who Love Them, and a novella, Waiting for my Baby. Ms. Hilbert is currently collaborating with award-winning filmmaker Christine Fugate on a documentary of her work and life, Earthly Ties. For more information, visit: www.donnahilbert.com

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