“Memory dwells in jagged-edge snapshots and the distant aura of Lemon Pledge in Hayley Mitchell Haugen’s Light & Shadow, Shadow & Light. Her poems dwell in the coming of age, hinge of madness, dark stories and dreams. Her work enters the forest, finds there themes and motifs of ominous myth, fairy and cautionary tales, and leaves behind a scattering of found trinkets along the breadcrumb trail home.” --Kersten Christianson, Something Yet to Be Named
These free-verse, mostly first-person poems cover a range of topics, both light and dark. Themes include childhood, relationships, marriage, social ills, illness, child-rearing and more, all from a contemporary woman's perspective, which often leans towards the dark, but ultimately lands in light.
“Memory dwells in jagged-edge snapshots and the distant aura of Lemon Pledge in Hayley Mitchell Haugen’s Light & Shadow, Shadow & Light. Her poems dwell in the coming of age, hinge of madness, dark stories and dreams. Her work enters the forest, finds there themes and motifs of ominous myth, fairy and cautionary tales, and leaves behind a scattering of found trinkets along the breadcrumb trail home.” --Kersten Christianson, Something Yet to Be Named
These free-verse, mostly first-person poems cover a range of topics, both light and dark. Themes include childhood, relationships, marriage, social ills, illness, child-rearing and more, all from a contemporary woman's perspective, which often leans towards the dark, but ultimately lands in light.