Donald Hall
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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...
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Intimate 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 readers courage to pursue their own vision.
Donald Hall (Essays After Eighty and A Carnival of Losses: Notes Nearing Ninety) knew a great deal about work, about poetry, and about age. Each of those things...
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"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 Ford
This is a collection of story-essays diverse in subject but united by the limitless affection the author holds for the land and the...
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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,...
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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...
8) Ox-cart man
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40 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 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.
17) The back chamber
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82 pages ; 22 cm
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The first full-length volume of poems in a decade by the former poet laureate of the United States. He 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 his remarkable new collection. While Hall's devoted readers will recognize many of his long-standing preoccupations -- baseball,...