Spell for Melting Ice

In Spell for Melting Ice, Kate B Hall holds a life in the palm of her hand and gives it a shake. For the reader, the sensation is one of being caught in the blizzard, feeling both wonder and disequilibrium. Hall's poems cast light on the troubling and the joyful; they blend myth and reality to forge a reckoning. In each one, there is the sense of holding something or someone close-a dream, a story, a sister-of the breath we take before letting them go.