Underground

Poetry. Hales writes of the extraordinary in ordinary lives, of what people see, hear, and do when things are not as they expected—when life walks up to you face-to-face, and waits for you to say the first word and make the first move. T.R. Hummer says of her work, "Corrinne Hales's poetry is straightforward and clear, adopting a plain style which is both appropriate and deceptive. It leads us to understand things we might prefer to ignore; it instructs us in examining the foundations of what we believe and to see where they are weak; it invites us to walk in places where the ground gives way beneath us."