• Skip to main content
  • Skip to footer

The Poetry Box

  • About
    • Mission
    • What’s in a Name?
    • Meet the Team
    • Contact
    • Privacy Policy
  • Contests & Awards
    • The Poetry Box Chapbook Prize 2025
    • 2024 Winners
    • 2023 Winners
    • 2022 Winners
    • 2021 Winners
    • 2020 Winners
    • 2019 Winners
    • 2018 Winners
    • Pushcart Nominees
  • Publishing
    • Poetry Books, Chapbooks, & Illustrated Collections
    • Testimonials from Authors
  • The Poeming Pigeon
  • Events
    • The Poetry Box – LIVE
    • Our YouTube Channel
    • All Events / Readings
  • Newsletters
  • Bookstore
    • All Books
    • Overstock Sale
    • Art Prints
  • Cart
Sale!
CoverFront-Fencelines(web)
Fencelines - Image 2

Fencelines

$14.00 Original price was: $14.00.$10.00Current price is: $10.00.

by Angela Hansen

Released on June 15, 2022

Only 1 left in stock

SKU: 978-1-956285-10-9 Categories: Overstock Sale, Poetry Collections

Share to Social Media:

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Pinterest
  • LinkedIn
  • More
  • Email
  • Tumblr
  • Description
  • Additional information
  • Sample Poem
  • Reviews (0)

Description

Fencelines

by Angela Hansen

Angela Hansen’s Fencelines, written during a time of deep hurt, explores how she found healing in the countryside surrounding her Nebraska acreage. Her imagery captures the strength and tenacity of the prairie and how it affects her own soul. Grounded in the passing of the seasons, both physically and mentally, these poems chronicle her journey along, over, and around the fencelines of the past decade.

About the Author

AuthorPhoto(Angela Hanses sitting inside a truck)WEB-(by-Angela-Rethwisch-Photography)
(cr: Angela Rethwisch Photography)

Angela Hansen was born and raised in the farmland of northeast Nebraska. She spent her childhood immersed in family and everything outside: the grove of trees, the crooked bridge down by the creek, and the surrounding countryside. Angela attended country school through 8th grade, graduated from Wayne High School, and received a bachelor’s degree in English Writing from Wayne State College. Her dream of writing and illustrating children’s books was overcome with the practicality of working steady jobs, which over the years included librarian, assistant manager of a bookstore, baker at a college coffee shop, paraoptometric, paraprofessional at an elementary school, and presently, running her own business as a house painter. 

Angela lived in St. Louis, MO, and LaGrange Park, IL, before moving back to Nebraska. She bought an acreage outside Carroll, where she lives with her three children, four goats, and a Ridgeback mix puppy. She enjoys baking, woodworking, gardening, creating, and finding just the right word. Her poetry has been published in Nebraska Life Magazine and shared at a few readings over the years.

Angela considers her faith in God the only reason she survived over 16 years of domestic violence and why she continues to heal, to find beauty in the world, and joy in her farmer and their kids.

Early Praise for Fencelines:

Stimulating and graceful, these poems will create in readers imagined visions based on the author’s vivid descriptions of life and beauty overlooked by most others. Fencelines is a big-hearted treasure for any enthusiast of poetic words.

—Alan J. Bartels, former editor, Nebraska Life Magazine 

Like William Stafford did for the Kansas fields, Angela Hansen has taken the Nebraska countryside and helped us see the magic and meaning that is imbued therein.”

—Susan McDowall, English instructor Central Community College, Grand Island, NE

Fencelines is a body of work encapsulating Hansen’s personal journey of self-preservation and growth, “where all the Nebraska seasons meet for coffee and gossip.” Hansen exhibits the resilience of womanhood among the prairie. Her poems read like Polaroids; she carries her readers through colorful snapshots of her personal love, loss, pain, and acceptance, all nestled between vivid, organic imagery of an unforgiving, yet fruitful countryside existence. Every poem in Hansen’s collection embodies cathartic release.

—Sharon Nicole Carr, Adult Services librarian, Wayne Public Library

Like this:

Like Loading...

Additional information

Weight 8 oz
Dimensions 5.5 × 8.5 × .2 in
ISBN

978-1-956285-10-9

Pages

46

Wholesale Channel(s)

INGRAM

Sample Poem

A Walk on the First Day of Spring

I follow the fenceline
down to the old Preston farm.
There in between the quiet places
is a narrow lane overgrown with shadows
where all the Nebraska seasons
meet for coffee and gossip.

Dry leaves rustle and tumble
over crusts of stale snow.
Vibrant green shoots through
tangled and pungent ditches.
I smell the damp rot of the past
and the stirring of the earth.

The plains release a gusty cry
like that of a ruddy newborn,
pushing winter’s last breath
from among the trees.
I stand at the confluence of yesterday and tomorrow,
and it speaks redemption to my soul.

Like this:

Like Loading...

Reviews

There are no reviews yet.

Be the first to review “Fencelines” Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Related products

  • Sale! CoverFront-TheEaterOfDreams

    The Eater of Dreams

    $16.00 Original price was: $16.00.$7.00Current price is: $7.00.
    Add to cart
  • Book Cover, Bee Dance by Cathy Cain (front cover image)

    Bee Dance

    $16.00
    Add to cart
  • Giving Ground

    $12.00
    Add to cart
  • Sale! Front Cover of My Life in Cars by Linda Strever

    My Life in Cars

    $12.00 Original price was: $12.00.$7.00Current price is: $7.00.
    Read more

Footer

Gold Logo  

Email:
Shawn@ThePoetryBox.com

Talk/Text:
(530)409-0721

The Poetry Box Newsletter Signup

Calls for Submissions, New Releases, Publishing Opportunities, Readings





CLMP logo
Copyright © 2025 The Poetry Box · Site Designed by Shawn Aveningo Sanders · Powered by Genesis
%d