Unpacking the Boxes

Unpacking the Boxes

Author: Donald Hall

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2009-09-11

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 9780547247946

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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.


The Oxford Illustrated Book of American Children's Poems

The Oxford Illustrated Book of American Children's Poems

Author: Donald Hall

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 98

ISBN-13: 0195123735

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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.


Without

Without

Author: Donald Hall

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 100

ISBN-13: 9780395957653

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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.


White Apples and the Taste of Stone

White Apples and the Taste of Stone

Author: Donald Hall

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2007-12-03

Total Pages: 521

ISBN-13: 0547348789

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This retrospective collection of verse from the former US poet laureate and National Medal of Arts winner spans six decades of celebrated work. Throughout his writing life Donald Hall has garnered numerous accolades and honors, culminating in 2006 with his appointment as poet laureate of the United States. White Apples and the Taste of Stone collects more than two hundred poems from across sixty years of Hall’s celebrated career, and includes poems published in The New Yorker, the American Poetry Review, and the New York Times. Those who have come to love Donald Hall's poetry will welcome this vital and important addition to his body of work. For the uninitiated it is a spectacular introduction to this critically acclaimed and admired poet.


Life Work

Life Work

Author: Donald Hall

Publisher: Beacon Press

Published: 2012-03-13

Total Pages: 140

ISBN-13: 0807095427

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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.


Old and New Poems

Old and New Poems

Author: Donald Hall

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9780899199542

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Gathers poems from each period of Hall's career, including "The One Day," the long poem that won the National Book Critics Circle Award.


Breakfast Served Any Time All Day

Breakfast Served Any Time All Day

Author: Donald Hall

Publisher: University of Michigan Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 9780472068524

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A master of American letters collects forty years of writings on poetry in one essential volume


Claims for Poetry

Claims for Poetry

Author: Donald Hall

Publisher: University of Michigan Press

Published: 1982

Total Pages: 524

ISBN-13: 9780472063086

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A collection of essays by contemporary American poets on the subject of their art


Essays After Eighty

Essays After Eighty

Author: Donald Hall

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2014-12-02

Total Pages: 143

ISBN-13: 0544286944

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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 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


Collected Poems

Collected Poems

Author: Jane Kenyon

Publisher:

Published: 2005-09

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13:

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Now at the ten-year anniversary of her death, Kenyon's Collected Poems assembles all of her published poetry in one book.