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The Missing Body of the Fox
Written in the last years before his death, The Missing Body of the Fox goes in search of the mother whose suicide Hall witnessed when he was eight years old. Working his way through a memory shattered by trauma, he tries to recover the story of his mother Lurlene Bronaugh and the long consequences of her death for his childhood self and… More
The Mother on the Other Side of the World
In his fifth book of poems, The Mother on the Other Side of the World, James Baker Hall revisits his dark childhood with a spiritual maturity earned of lifelong struggle with the forces of silence, secrecy, deception, and hiding. Published by Sarabande Books in 1999. More
Postcards, Set of 38, from James Baker Hall: The Mirror’s Beveled Edge
This set of postcards accompanied James Baker Hall: The Mirror’s Beveled Edge, a solo exhibition in the University of Kentucky Chandler Hospital. The publication was produced by University of Kentucky Arts in Healthcare in collaboration with Institute 193 and the James Baker Hall Archive of Photographs and Films. More
Strung Out Along the Endless Branch
Winner of the 2024 James Baker Hall Book Award for Poetry by an emerging poet (judged by Greg Pape), Wesley Houp’s first book received exhilarating receptions on the Kentucky Writers on the Road speaker’s tour. Houp finds poems everywhere, in some very unlikely places. More
