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Author : Donald Hall
Publisher : Ecco
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-21
Category : American poetry
ISBN : 1328745600
"Former poet laureate Donald Hall selects the essential work from a life in poetry"--Publisher.
Author : Donald Hall
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2015-12-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780544555617
The former U.S. poet laureate presents the essential work from across his long and celebrated career in this sweeping collection. For decades, Donald Hall produced a body of work that established him as one of America’s most significant—and beloved—poets of his generation. Celebrated for his plainspoken yet evocative imagery and his stirring explorations of bucolic life, Hall won numerous awards, including the Robert Frost Medal, the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, and the National Medal of Arts. When Hall reached his eighties, his health began to decline, and he announced that the ability to write poems has “abandoned” him. Looking back over his astonishingly rich body of work, Hall hand-picked his finest and most memorable poems for this final, concise, and essential volume.
Author : Donald Hall
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0395957656
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 : 143 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2014-12-02
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780544286948
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 : University of Michigan Press
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0472063081
A collection of essays by contemporary American poets on the subject of their art
Author : Donald Hall
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : American poetry
ISBN : 0472068520
A master of American letters collects forty years of writings on poetry in one essential volume
Author : Donald Hall
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0899199542
Gathers poems from each period of Hall's career, including "The One Day," the long poem that won the National Book Critics Circle Award.
Author : Donald Hall
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0618919996
Spanning the entire career of the celebrated American poet, a collection of 226 works represents sixty years of poetic endeavor, including recent poems and a CD containing readings by the author.
Author : Donald Hall
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780195123739
An anthology of American poems, is arranged chronologically, from colonial alphabet rhymes to Native American cradle songs to contemporary poems. 50 illustrations, 20 in color.
Author : Donald Hall
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780807095423
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 : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2009-09-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 054724794X
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 : Holt McDougal
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015022049764
Author : Donald Hall
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781328826312
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 : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 101 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2011-09-13
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780547646459
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
Publisher : North Point Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-08
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781466897267
In the pantheon of great sports literature, not a few poets have tried their hand at paying tribute to their love affair with the game -- Walt Whitman, Marianne Moore, and William Carlos Williams among them. This elegant volume collects Donald Hall's prose about sports, concentrating on baseball but extending to basketball, football and Ping-Pong. The essays are a wonderful mixture of reminiscence and observation, of baseball and of fathers and sons, of how a game binds people together and bridges generations.