Visual Field

"Visual Field" offers a poet's eye view into a world of diminishing vision as Jan Haag negotiates the early stages of glaucoma, a journey she is making alongside her 93-year-old mother, whose own eyesight is fading. The 22 poems in this collection, however, reflect a world that is not narrowing but expanding as the poet looks at life's smallest moments, as well as elements in the natural world, with a grateful heart.

Jan Haag taught writing as a journalism and creative writing professor at Sacramento City College for more than three decades. Now retired, she hosts in-person and online workshops using the Amherst Writers & Artists method, an encouraging way to generate writing. Jan is the author of a poetry collection, "Companion Spirit," about her late husband, and she has had stories and poems published in many anthologies and literary journals. She is the co-publisher of River Rock Books in Sacramento, and she posts poems daily on her website, janishaag.com.