How nice to read Hawthorne. Renewing all those people, times, memories. A great exotic Guest Book.

-Joanne Kyger

Ellen Sander’s Hawthorne, a House in Bolinas is  a passionate and compelling synthesis of memory, love, and affinity between the artist and nature that reaffirms the verse epyllion as the vehicle of choice for the lyric poet.

-Dean A. Hoffman, PhD., University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

Ellen Sander’s lyrical cartography of the community of Bolinas, California is a “luminous silver ribbon” of a memoir replete with “the beauty of ordinary moments / with extraordinary beings.” Hawthorne is an unforgettable, intricate set of portraits of individuals who collectively bestowed the lingering gallantry of their youthful ideals on a passageway home of verse and song. Out of these poems will the history that matters find a definitive account that gives us both winsome pleasure and exquisite solace.

-Bill Mohr, author of Holdouts: The Los Angeles Poetry Renaissance 1948-1992

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/05/31/what-the-bolinas-poets-built