What Does Not Return - Paperback

by Tami Haaland (Author)

What Does Not Return examines dementia and caregiving against the expansive backdrop of the rural inland West. Through a process of loss and letting go, the poems turn away from "what cannot be undone" in favor of what the present moment reveals through dreams, art, and encounters with animals.

Author Biography

Tami Haaland is the author of two previous books of poetry: When We Wake in the Night, and Breath in Every Room, winner of the Nicholas Roerich First Book Award. Her poems have appeared in The Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, High Desert Journal, Consequence, Ascent, The Ecopoetry Anthology, and many other periodicals and anthologies. She was the recipient of an Artist Innovation Award from Montana Arts Council, has served as Montana's Poet Laureate and teaches at Montana State University, Billings.