Donald Hall
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The former U.S. Poet Laureate contemplates life, death, and the view from his window in these “alternately lyrical and laugh-out-loud funny” essays (The New York Times).
From an early age, Donald Hall dedicated his life to the written word. In his long and celebrated career, he was an accomplished poet, essayist, memoirist, dramatist, and children’s author. Now, in the “unknown, unanticipated...
From an early age, Donald Hall dedicated his life to the written word. In his long and celebrated career, he was an accomplished poet, essayist, memoirist, dramatist, and children’s author. Now, in the “unknown, unanticipated...
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Description
Author of more than thirty books of poetry and prose, Donald Hall performs here dozens of his best-loved poems, together with excerpts from six of his works of prose. Donald Hall has been writing poems for over fifty years and now stands as one of America's foremost poets. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Robert Frost Medal of the Poetry Society of America, the New England Book Award for nonfiction, and former Poet Laureate of...
4) Ox-cart man
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Pub. Date
1979
Physical Desc
[40] p. : col. ill. ; 22 x 28 cm.
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Describes the day-to-day life throughout the changing seasons of an early 19th-century New England family.
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Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
216 pages ; 22 cm
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In this collection of essays Hall discusses aging, the pleasures of solitude, and the sometimes astonishing freedom arising from both. From the vantage point of very old age, Hall also delivers uncensored tales of literary (and other) friendships, and the death of his beloved wife, Jane Kenyon. -- adapted from jacket.