When We Wake in the Night
“Life, it appears, is simple,” Tami Haaland says toward the end of this book. Her poetry captures the complicated feelings of parents and children, men and women, boys and girls, as they enact their family dramas. At the heart of this collection is an account of a unique and unbearable loss, the kind which makes life anything but simple. Yet Haaland writes with such clarity and sanity and fluent formal skill that she does make life appear simple, even as she shows us again and again it is not. When We Wake in the Night is a remarkable achievement. - Mark Jarman, author of Bone Fires: New and Selected Poems
“Tami Haaland’s poems can be unflinching or fragile; they are resonant, heartfelt, and startling. When We Wake in the Night draws you into a world of memory, nature’s spaces and creatures, dreams, love, and deepest loss. This is a volume to treasure.” - Kate Light, author of Gravity’s Dream