Dolores Hayden, award-winning poet and historian of American landscapes, engages the lives of daredevil pilots—women and men from the earliest years of aviation—in Exuberance, her third poetry collection. Hayden's poems have appeared in Poetry, the Common, Ecotone, Raritan, Shenandoah, the Yale Review, Southwest Review, Best American Poetry, and Poetry Daily. Author of American Yard (2004) and Nymph, Dun, and Spinner (2010), she's received awards from the Poetry Society of America and the New England Poetry Club, and residencies in poetry from Djerassi, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and Noepe. Professor of Architecture and American Studies Emerita at Yale University, Hayden has also been a Guggenheim fellow and won an American Library Association Notable Book Award for nonfiction.

Other poems by Dolores Hayden in Verse Daily:
November 1, 2004:  "Local Knowledge" "Sap moon, grass moon, milk moon, rose moon..."
March 29, 2004:  "For Rent" "Sheathed in weathered boards, false front..."
December 24, 2003:  "Pacific Airstream Reaches New England" "Balmy high. The New Dawns start in June..."
November 9, 2003:  "Pregnant in June" "The sun-filled tree / kaleidoscopes..."
October 3, 2003:  "Target Practice" "Look for Long-Tailed Crow..."

Books by Dolores Hayden:

Other poems on the web by Dolores Hayden:
Two poems
"Wythe County in July"

Dolores Hayden's Website.

Dolores Hayden According to Wikipedia.

About Exuberance:

"Intoxicated with the history of aviation, Dolores Hayden has written a work of historical imagination that is vocally energetic, psychologically acute, and musically sophisticated. In their love of physical risk and in their daredevil elan, the speakers in these poems keep faith with the mundane facts of flight as well as its spiritual intimations. The movement between lyrical speech and historical reflection gives us not only a portrait of the early years of the twentieth century, but a book in which technological advance is given a profoundly human voice."
—Tom Sleigh

"Dolores Hayden's poems beautifully capture the early decades of aviation in the United States, a time when many Americans responded with awe and amazement to the then-new technology. Hayden, though, explores below the public's infatuation to give us a glimpse into the aviator's dreams, both realized and broken; the carnival-show atmosphere of exhibition flying, with all the attendant ballyhoo; the impact of race and gender; and the often flawed and all-too-human heroes and heroines of the age. And in the final poem of the collection, she deftly connects the world of aviation enthusiasm to the world of flappers, bathtub gin, and stock speculation. A must read for pilots, aviation enthusiasts, and those who remember that Gatsby had an airplane."
— Janet Bednarek