Sequel by Wendell Hawken

These wonderful “farm poems” are closely observed meditations on nature, beauty, love, loss, disease, death, and memory. In a small space, Wendell Hawken creates a full universe of feelings. A stunning achievement.

–Howard Means, author of 67 Shots: Kent State and the End of American Innocence

In Wendell Hawken’s Sequel the beauty and reality of life on her Virginia farm and the looming death of her husband fuse into a profound and haunting work, ending ‘not with Amen/but with Ahh.”  Strong, urgent, moving, this is an achievement of rare artistry and depth.

–Patricia Corbus, winner of 2015 Off-the-Grid Poetry Prize and author of Finistra’s Window

These wonderfully moving poems, spoken by a wife, chart the aftermath of her beloved husband’s death as she continues to live on their farm. The landscape with its weathers; the birds, cows, and dogs seem filled with the husband’s physical presence on an almost cellular level. The voice is vivid, unflinchingly observant—and joyful. She observes: ‘time, though bent, the one straight line.’

–Susan Sindall, author of What’s Left and former editor of Heliotrope, a journal of poetry