Bitter Creek Junction: Poetry of the American West

Linda Hasselstrom

Winner, Western Heritage Award, National Cowboy Museum
Finalist! Women Writing the West Willa Award, 2001

The West found in Linda Hasselstrom’s poems is neither the mythical Old West nor the New West of ranchettes and trophy homes. Hasselstrom’s aria is set to the rhythms of the authentic West, laced with lyrical realism, and distilled to the sharp crispness of a plains morning.

Here you’ll find the night heron whose “slender beak descends, a sudden hammer on a silver spine.” You’ll “give yourself sunsets…in shades of pink and gold” while “long tatters curl eastward like discarded ribbons.”

“These poems speak out of the western experience, old and new, with an unmistakable voice. Nobody writes better than Linda Hasselstrom about the grinding chores, economic instability, and deep satisfactions of contemporary ranching. …Hasselstrom goes beyond branding and mending fences.… Here the old west and the new cohabit uneasily."
•• Edith Rylander, Dancing Back the Cranes

“[The book’s] themes transcend the western landscape. Her writing is raw and unpretentious…the voice of a woman who has learned while living, and has something to say."
•• The Bloomsbury Review

“Pithy, forthright, uncompromising…[those words] fall short short.…you are never far from the High Plains when accompanying Linda Hasselstrom through her poetry."
•• Hard Row to Hoe

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