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WINNER of the 2024 Nelson Poetry Book Award from the Kansas Authors Club<\/a><\/p>\n

Honorable Mention for the 2025 Hefner Heitz Kansas Book Award in Poetry: “Insomnia in Another Town<\/em> by Lisa M. Hase-Jackson dazzles with the expansive efficiency only an established voice can achieve in consideration of the complexities of the natural world, human relations, and fragile systems.\u201d
\n\u2014Michael Kleber-Diggs, author of\u00a0Worldly Things <\/em>(2022 HHKBA Poetry winner)<\/p>\n

Insomnia in Another Town<\/em> is a peripatetic exploration of place and displacement; animal life and strange weathers; the exigencies of race, class, and gender as childhood memories emit a dark radiance by which to navigate the present. These poems are quietly perceptive, unflinching: \u201cThere is no small grief\u2026 \/ for all are \/ interconnected. One touch \/ sends tremors through our core \/ like the fly in the web \/ that wakes the spider at its center.\u201d Nevertheless, there\u2019s significant courage here with grace notes of buoyancy as readers are reawakened to \u201cjoy in bird song along the power lines \/ and between the tunes \/ on the radio, \/ the interstices \/ of thoughts \/ no one thinks about.\u201d
\n\u2014Claire Bateman, author of Wonders of the Invisible World<\/em>, Scape<\/em>, and Coronology<\/em><\/p>\n

Insomnia in Another Town<\/em> is a remarkable meditation about memory, mother-daughter relationships, and the opaque nature of family history, whether in the form of rumor, hearsay, or as one poem\u2019s narrator puts it, \u201cI\u2019ve heard it both ways.\u201d With profound clarity and tenderness, Hase-Jackson blends elegy, pop culture, and our fears around dying as a way to explore an array of human experiences, such as when \u201cbeing broke felt more like being poor,\u201d alongside the everyday miracles of how \u201cluck becomes blooms becomes beans,\u201d ultimately revealing what can and cannot be mended.
\n\u2014Esther Lee, author of Blank Missives<\/em>, Spit<\/em>, and Sacrificial Metal<\/em><\/p>\n

From the opening poem of Lisa Hase-Jackson’s impactful collection, Insomnia in Another Town<\/em>, we learn that “There is no small grief…all are interconnected.” These poems, cloaked in memory and the unmaking and re-making of family, travel us through the harvest of a poet’s life. Like the farms she made grow, this book tills the soil of a human soul and all the many experiences that make it. In pantoums, free verse, and prose poems, Hase-Jackson demonstrates the way that every lived experience weaves into a root system that bears unique fruit, singular as our heartbeats, our winding fingerprints.
\n\u2014Ashley M. Jones, poet laureate of Alabama<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":4770,"template":"","subject":[54],"browse_by_series":[30],"browse_by_imprints":[66],"conference":[],"class_list":["post-4769","books","type-books","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","subject-poetry","browse_by_series-clemson-converse-lit-series","browse_by_imprints-clemson-university-press-independent"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.clemson.edu\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books\/4769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.clemson.edu\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.clemson.edu\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/books"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.clemson.edu\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books\/4769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5421,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.clemson.edu\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books\/4769\/revisions\/5421"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.clemson.edu\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.clemson.edu\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.clemson.edu\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/subject?post=4769"},{"taxonomy":"browse_by_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.clemson.edu\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/browse_by_series?post=4769"},{"taxonomy":"browse_by_imprints","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.clemson.edu\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/browse_by_imprints?post=4769"},{"taxonomy":"conference","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.clemson.edu\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/conference?post=4769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}