Rites of Spring

by H. Palmer Hall (Compiled by)

Paperback

First published January 1, 1997

About the author

H. Palmer Hall was born in Beaumont, Texas, during World War II and spent most of his formative years in that city between the Big Thicket and the Gulf Coast. He was a Vietnamese interpreter/translator in the Army and spent the 1967-1968 war year in what was then South Vietnam. After returning from Vietnam, he worked for the National Security Agency (NSA) before being denied access to the Agency for marching in anti-war marches and signing a petition of 1,000+ active-duty soldiers opposed to the war. That petition appeared in The New York Times just before the great anti-war marches in Washington in the fall of 1969.
Hall is the editor/publisher of Pecan Grove Press, a small press operating out of St. Mary's University. His poems, short stories and essays have appeared in a variety of literary magazines including North American Review, The Texas Review, The Florida Review, The Texas Observer, Mizna: a journal of Arab American Culture. Briar Cliff Review, Ascent, Small Press Review, WLA: War, Literature & the Arts, Valaparaiso Poetry Review and many others, plus a variety of anthologies.

Reviews

[H. Hall]

This little book was written, almost by accident, one spring when a discussion groups I belong to (crewrt-l@interversity.org) erupted into a frenzy of "flower writing. As editor of Pecan Grove Press, I thought the poems were pretty damned good so got permission to compile them into a little book (4" X 6") about 20 pages long. Brother Cletus Behlmann, S.M.(a wonderful artist), volunteered to give me a few hundred copies of a card he had designed...and the little book was hatched. NOTE: This is NOT a review, merely an explanation.