Hallie’s books include several volumes of poetry and memoirs.
I Want to Eat Fire and Glow in the Dark
The poems in I Want to Eat Fire and Glow in the Dark start with the unspoken premise that we are all flammable and then follow the smoke trail to see who’s burning. Is it the sweating border guard or the thirsty asylum seeker? Is it a resentful Adam peering at this new creation, Eve? Or is it old Hemingway marching for justice with his fellow protestors? This wide-ranging collection asks, “How does our life fire play out?”
I Want to Eat Fire and Glow in the Dark on Amazon
Are We There Yet?
The title and tone of this memoir is taken from a Leigh Rubin cartoon with the caption “On the family trip to Nirvana.” A family of four is seated outside a mountain cave in meditation–mother and father in front, son and daughter behind them–as if in the family car. The four are robed, in lotus position, hands tucked into their sleeves. Father and daughter have one eye cocked to hear the boy ask, “Are we there yet?”
Spiritual aspirants may ask this same question, especially if they are not gifted with such clear signs pointing toward their destination. Hallie Moore has asked herself this through the twists and turns of her religious journey. Part autobiography, part spiritual memoir, her memoir charts the sign posts she has found along the way, knowing the journey is definitely not over.
The Animals In Our Lives
The Niemis, Moores, Butlers, and Ponders have rescued the orphaned pet, purchased a pedigreed prize, and always lavished the furry one with love and often more patience than the animal warranted. This collection is a testament to that love.
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The Husband Papers
In The Husband Papers Hallie Moore’s poems trace the path of love and loving from the intoxicating encounter with a questionable relationship through the maturing of that relationship. The explosive beginning is played out around the world, family life adds its own complications, and finally in a series of ruminations on marriage, the storyteller moves on.
These poems are thin-skinned. They aim at being present in the midst of joy and pain.
So Many Gods
Hallie Moore is a seeker, at once skeptical and yearning. To turn the pages of So Many Gods is to join Moore’s pilgrimage. Her poems quest for—and question—spiritual knowledge with wit and compassion, always aware of “the old voice in her head reciting the rules, the new one egging her on.” Moore never forgets that we are incarnated spirits as she artfully illustrates the many ways the body by turns enables and complicates our connection with the divine.
–Elizabeth Austen, Poet laureate of Washington State.