Conversations With Donald Hall

Author : John Martin-Joy,Allan Cooper,Richard Rohfritch
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781496822482

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Conversations with Donald Hall by John Martin-Joy,Allan Cooper,Richard Rohfritch Pdf

Conversations with Donald Hall offers a unique glimpse into the creative process of a major American poet, writer, editor, anthologist, and teacher. The volume probes in depth Hall’s evolving views on poetry, poets, and the creative process over a period of more than sixty years. Donald Hall (1928–2018) reveals vivid, funny, and moving anecdotes about T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, and the sculptor Henry Moore; he talks about his excitement on his return to New Hampshire and the joys of his marriage with Jane Kenyon; and he candidly discusses his loss and grief when Kenyon died in 1995 at the age of forty-seven. The thirteen interviews range from a detailed exploration of the composition of “Ox Cart Man” to the poems that make up Without, an almost unbearable poetry of grief that was written following Jane Kenyon’s death. The book also follows Hall into old age, when he turned to essay writing and the reflections on aging that make up Essays after Eighty. This moving and insightful collection of interviews is crucial for anyone interested in poetry and the creative process, the techniques and achievements of modern American poetry, and the elusive psychology of creativity and loss.

Author : Donald Hall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1496822498

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Conversations with Donald Hall by Donald Hall Pdf

"Conversations with Donald Hall offers a unique glimpse into the creative process of a major American poet, writer, editor, anthologist, and teacher. The volume probes in depth Hall's evolving views on poetry, poets, and the creative process over a period of more than sixty years. Donald Hall (1928-2018) reveals vivid, funny, and moving anecdotes about T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, and the sculptor Henry Moore; he talks about his excitement on his return to New Hampshire and the joys of his marriage with Jane Kenyon; and he candidly discusses his loss and grief when Kenyon died in 1995 at the age of forty-seven. The thirteen interviews range from a detailed exploration of the composition of "Ox Cart Man" to the poems that make up Without, an almost unbearable poetry of grief that was written following Jane Kenyon's death. The book also follows Hall into old age, when he turned to essay writing and the reflections on aging that make up Essays after Eighty. This moving and insightful collection of interviews is crucial for anyone interested in poetry and the creative process, the techniques and achievements of modern American poetry, and the elusive psychology of creativity and loss"--

Author : Donald Hall
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2014-12-02
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780544286948

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Essays After Eighty by Donald Hall Pdf

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 galaxy” of very old age, his essays continue to startle, move, and delight. In Essays After Eighty, Hall ruminates on his past: “thirty was terrifying, forty I never noticed because I was drunk, fifty was best with a total change of life, sixty extended the bliss of fifty . . .” He also addresses his present: “When I turned eighty and rubbed testosterone on my chest, my beard roared like a lion and gained four inches.” Most memorably, Hall writes about his enduring love affair with his ancestral Eagle Pond Farm and with the writing life that sustains him every day: “Yesterday my first nap was at 9:30 a.m., but when I awoke I wrote again.” “Deliciously readable…Donald Hall, if abandoned by the muse of poetry, has wrought his prose to a keen autumnal edge.” —The Wall Street Journal

Author : Donald Hall
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0618084738

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Here at Eagle Pond by Donald Hall Pdf

In these tender essays, Hall shares his memories and thoughts on growing up in New Hampshire on his grandparent's dairy farm, of the seasons, and of his connection to the land, his family, and his coming home.

Author : Donald Hall
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781328826312

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A Carnival Of Losses by Donald Hall Pdf

Former poet laureate of the United States Donald Hall’s final collection of essays, from the vantage point of very old age, once again “alternately lyrical and laugh-out-loud funny.”* *(New York Times) “Why should a nonagenarian hold anything back?” Donald Hall answers his own question in these self-knowing, fierce, and funny essays on aging, the pleasures of solitude, and the sometimes astonishing freedoms arising from both. Nearing ninety at the time of writing, he intersperses memories of exuberant days in his youth, with uncensored tales of literary friendships spanning decades—with James Wright, Richard Wilbur, Seamus Heaney, and other luminaries. Cementing his place alongside Roger Angell and Joan Didion as a generous and profound chronicler of loss, this final work is as original and searing as anything Hall wrote during his extraordinary literary lifetime.

Author : Donald Hall
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780807095423

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Life Work by Donald Hall Pdf

The revered American Poet Laureate reflects on the meaning of work, solitude, and love with “extraordinary nobility and wisdom” (The New York Times) When Donald Hall moved to his grandparents’ New Hampshire farm in 1975, his work as a writer and a life devoted to the literary arts must have seemed remote from the harsh physical labor of his ancestors. However, he reveals a similar kind of artistry in the lives of his grandparents, Kate and Wesley. From them, he learned that the devotion to craft—be it canning vegetables, writing poems, or carting manure—creates its own special discipline and an ‘absorbedness’ that no wage can compensate. In this “sustained meditation on work as the key to personal happiness” (Los Angeles Times), we see how the writer has modeled his own life on his family’s lives of work, solitude, and love. When Hall comes face to face with his own mortality halfway through writing this book, we understand both his obsession with work and its ultimate consolation.

Author : Donald Hall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015034295942

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Death to the Death of Poetry by Donald Hall Pdf

A spirited defense of the vitality of contemporary poetry.

Author : Donald Hall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Poetry
ISBN : UOM:39015035310294

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The Yellow Room by Donald Hall Pdf

Author : Donald Hall
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0395957656

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Without by Donald Hall Pdf

Hall's bestselling collection ever speaks of the death of his wife--his gift and testimony, his lament, and his celebration of loss and love.

Author : Donald Hall
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780395788417

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The Old Life by Donald Hall Pdf

Twelfth book by the American author, featuring the autobiographical title work; a memorial to his wife, poet Jane Kenyon who died in 1995; and two other poems with thematic connections to his earlier works.

Author : Donald Hall
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 101 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2011-09-13
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780547646459

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The Back Chamber by Donald Hall Pdf

The former US poet laureate has crafted poems full of “unexpected insights, charms, droll observations, self-mockery, and well-earned wisdom” (Rain Taxi). In The Back Chamber, Donald Hall illuminates the evocative, iconic objects of deep memory—a cowbell, a white stone perfectly round, a three-legged milking stool—that serve to foreground the rich meditations on time and mortality that run through this remarkable collection. While Hall’s devoted readers will recognize many of his long-standing preoccupations—baseball, the family farm, love, sex, and friendship—what will strike them as new is the fierce, pitiless poignancy he reveals as his own life’s end comes into view. The Back Chamber is far from being death-haunted, but rather is lively, irreverent, erotic, hilarious, ironic, and sly—full of the life-affirming energy that has made Donald Hall one of America’s most popular and enduring poets. “For the reader boiling in triple-digit SoCal heat at the end of the summer, Donald Hall’s The Back Chamber: Poems arrives like a sudden cloudburst and shower of cooling rain . . . A former U.S. poet laureate, Hall has always had this elemental power—to vividly evoke his particular New England climate and geography so that it can’t be mistaken for any other—but what is more unexpected in this new collection of poems, his 16th, is passion.” —Los Angeles Times “The former U.S. poet laureate reaches his 20th book in unmistakably honest form, aggressively plain and unfailingly open about sex, old age, suicide, recovery, the friendship of poets, the business of poetry, dogs, New Hampshire, and baseball.” —Publishers Weekly

Author : Donald Hall,Ian Hamilton
Publisher : Between the Lines Productions
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Hall, Donald
ISBN : UCSC:32106011382014

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Donald Hall in Conversation with Ian Hamilton by Donald Hall,Ian Hamilton Pdf

A 112 page volume, containing a 27,000 word interview, with a career sketch, a comprehensive bibliography, and a representative selection of quotations from Hall's critics and reviewers. Also included is Hall's recent poem, Tidying. Hall comes across as a professional poet who has made the most of the institutional opportunities available in post-war America to build a career as writer and teacher. Twenty-two pages of closely printed bibliography attest to the scale and range of his work as an editor and anthologist ... Even-tempered and meticulous, he exemplifies a contented subservience to the work ethic. Poetry, for Hall, is a craft which can be laboured at in the expectation of success proportionate to investment of effort. He is as practical and dispassionate in his attitude to subject matter as to poetic form: both are to be extended in the interests of furthering the reach of his poetry, and if private experience is to be drawn on, it does not deserve any more excitable treatment than other topics. He, none the less, speaks at length about his personbal life in the interview, bringing a stoic grace to his account of the circumstances and aftermath of the death of his wife, the poet Jane Kenyon. 'Tidying', the revealingly titled sample lyric, offers a characteristically exact meditation on that aftermath. Patrick Crotty, Times Literary Supplement, October 27th, 2000

Author : Donald Hall
Publisher : Mariner Books
Page : 67 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0899198163

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The One Day by Donald Hall Pdf

In a long poem, the narrator looks back on his childhood and shares his attitudes toward the past

Author : Donald Hall
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2009-09-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 054724794X

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Unpacking the Boxes by Donald Hall Pdf

Former United States poet laureate Donald Hall reflects on his life, discussing his childhood in Connecticut, the works that influenced him, his education, his success and failures as a writer and father, his friendships, and other related topics.

Author : Donald Hall
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 111 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2003-05-07
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780547347059

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The Painted Bed by Donald Hall Pdf

The former US poet laureate delivers a book “filled with raw sexual disclosures, rowdy anger and a self-blasting mockery” (The New York Times). Donald Hall’s fourteenth collection opens with an epigraph from the Urdu poet Faiz: “The true subject of poetry is the loss of the beloved.” In that poetic tradition, as in The Painted Bed, the beloved might be a person or something else—life itself, or the disappearing countryside. Hall’s new poems further the themes of love, death, and mourning so powerfully introduced in his Without (1998), but from the distance of passed time. A long poem, “Daylilies on the Hill 1975-1989,” moves back to the happy repossession of the poet’s old family house and its history—a structure that “persisted against assaults” as its generations of residents could not. These poems are by turns furious and resigned, spirited and despairing—”mania is melancholy reversed,” as Hall writes in another long poem, “Kill the Day.” In this book’s fourth and final section, “Ardor,” the poet moves toward acceptance of new life in old age; eros reemerges. “More controlled, more varied and more powerful, this taut follow-up volume [to Without] reexamines Hall’s grief while exploring the life he has made since. The book’s first poem, ‘Kill the Day,’ stands among the best Hall has ever written.” —Publishers Weekly “A compelling, sometimes shocking, and certainly deeply moving depiction of bereavement.” —Poetry “Hall has continued growing as a poet, and his steady readers may consider this his finest collection . . . Bleakness and beauty characterize the reminiscent lyrics that follow, too, joined by a breathtaking bluntness.” —Booklist