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  • Essays After Eighty

    by Donald Hall ...
    The former U.S. Poet Laureate contemplates life, death, and the view from his window in these "a lternately 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 ... Read more

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  • Old and New Poems

    by Donald Hall ...
    This collection drawn from more than forty years of the poet's work is "a superb introduction to newcomers and a sumptuous offering to familiars" ( Publishers Weekly).Former US Poet Laureate Donald Hall has been celebrated with numerous awards, including the National Book Critics Circle Award and the National Medal of the Arts.This volume collects some of Hall's finest short poetry written between ... Read more

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  • Without

    Poems

    by Donald Hall ...
    You might expect the fact of dying--the dying of a beloved wife and fellow poet--to make for a bleak and lonely tale. But Donald Hall's poignant and courageous poetry, facing that dread fact, involves us all: the magnificent, humorous, and gifted woman, Jane Kenyon, who suffered and died; the doctors and nurses who tried but failed to save her; the neighbors, friends, and relatives who grieved for ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • String Too Short to Be Saved

    Recollections of Summers on a New England Farm

    by Donald Hall ...
    “These vivid New Hampshire farm sketches from Hall's well-spent youth—all written when he was full-grown—are as much attuned to the supple and enticing utilities of language as they are grounded in a vanished time which may, at a glimpse, seem simple, but were complex and rich and not simple at all.”—Richard FordThis is a collection of story-essays diverse in subject but united by the limitless ... Read more

    $13.09 USD

  • The Painted Bed

    Poems

    by Donald Hall ...
    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 ... Read more

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  • The Selected Poems of Donald Hall

    by Donald Hall ...
    The f ormer 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, ... Read more

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  • Life Work

    by Donald Hall ...
    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 ... Read more

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  • Old Poets

    Reminiscences and Opinions

    by Donald Hall ...
    **“Old Poets is an indispensable jewel.”—Washington Post“An astonishing array of encounters...Hall’s observations are shrewd and generous.”—Boston GlobeIntimate portraits of great poets in old age, giving new insight into their work and their lives, and context to the often flawless art created by flawed human beings. The best of themselves endure, and the old poets’ existence and endurance gives ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • The Old Life

    New Poems

    by Donald Hall ...
    The prize-winning poet's collection of autobiographical poems is "the work of a master, all the more poignant for its frankness . . . in the face of tragedy" ( Pittsburgh Post-Gazette).One of America's most celebrated poets, Donald Hall was at the height of his powers when he wrote The Old Life. Intimate, anecdotal and often funny, these autobiographical poems follow Hall from his boyhood to his ... Read more

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  • White Apples And The Taste Of Stone

    Selected Poems 1946-2006

    by Donald Hall ...
    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 recently published in The New Yorker, the American Poetry Review, and the New York Times. ... Read more

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  • Willow Temple

    New and Selected Stories

    by Donald Hall ...
    A collection of stories by the former US poet laureate, "a first-rate work by an author whose control over the tools of his genre is impeccable" ( Publishers Weekly).A contemplative selection of twelve short stories from the celebrated author Donald Hall, Willow Temple focuses on the effects of divorce, adultery, and neglect. Hall's stories are reminiscent of those of Alice Munro and William ... Read more

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  • The Back Chamber

    Poems

    by Donald Hall ...
    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 ... Read more

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