Breath in Every Room

Selected from more than 800 entrants, Montanan Tami Haaland's debut book includes gritty, uplifting, and humorous poems.AfterWe stand at the washing machine pickingstraw from our son's new sweaterafter he has tripped in a pumpkin patchand run through amaranth with hissecond grade friends. Our fingersease slivers from the fibers, backthen front, stomach, shoulders, arms, after a morning of angryglares, an afternoon of lookingaway then opening to talk aboutweather and people we know. Our fingers examine this fabric forodd texture, the barbs buried deep.Tami Haaland teaches English at Montana State University-Billings. She received an MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars in January 2000.Also AvailableEcholocations by Diane ThielPB $12.95, 1-885266-97-9 CUSA