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IN OUR VERY BONES
POTATO SOUP
PRAIRIE SUITE: A CELEBRATION
SANCTUARY NEAR SALT CREEK



In Our Very Bones
Copyright © 1997
by Twyla Hansen
A Slow Tempo Press

In poem after poem ... Hansen seeks out solitary discoveries. Her literary ancestors, Walt Whitman, Theodore Roethke, and Mary Oliver have taught her that the ways of nature can be read and interpreted as lessons for the inner self, what Whitman dared to call the "soul" in his famous visionary poems "Song of Myself" and "A Noiseless Patient Spider." — Steven Schneider, Nebraska Territory


Potato Soup
Copyright © 2003
by Twyla Hansen
Backwaters Press
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Twyla Hansen has written about true things — a book full of honest speech by a poet who loves the small beauties of everyday life, one you'll share with people you care about for years to come. — Jonis Agee

Potato Soup is rich with climate, place, color, detail and life, capturing within the covers of a single engaging and lovely collection so much of our part of the planet. — Ted Kooser

Twyla Hansen connects the human and the natural worlds in surprising — and often stunning — ways. A poet of the prairie, she is equally a poet of the human spirit. — William Kloefkorn


Prairie Suite: A Celebration
Copyright © 2006
by Twyla Hansen & Paul Johnsgard
Spring Creek Prairie Audubon Center
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Hansen has a good ear for the music of landscape and language. Prairie Suite is a work that strives to make the elements of the natural world of the tallgrass prairie a part of our personal and cultural imaginations [,…] a celebration of the things we too often overlook and the things that still persist in spite of all we’ve done to them. — Tom Lynch, Assistant Professor of English, University of Nebraska — Lincoln


Sanctuary Near Salt Creek
Copyright © 2001
by Twyla Hansen
Lone Willow Press

Each poem rises, elevating our understanding of the world and ourselves. — Susanne George-Bloomfield


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