New essays from the vantage point of very old age, once again “alternately lyrical and laugh-out-loud funny,”* from the former poet laureate of the United States * New York Times Donald Ha
Former poet laureate Donald Hall selects the essential work from a moving and brilliant life in poetry. The ability to write poems has “abandoned” Donald Hall, now in his eighties, one of the most sig
“Laconic, witty, and lyrical, Hall is a master stylist, yet he remains refreshingly humble and matter-of-fact . . . This work offers revealing insights into the human condition—and the grit and openne
This original paperback brings together for the first time all of Donald Hall’s writing on Eagle Pond Farm, his ancestral home in New Hampshire, where he visited his grandparents as a young boy and th
Brings together six pieces from The Ideal Bakery and six additional stories that consider the experiences of children who have alcoholic parents, witness a parent's adultery, experience the first stag
Distinguished poet Donald Hall reflects on the meaning of work, solitude, and love“The best new book I have read this year, of extraordinary nobility and wisdom. It will remain with me always.&
Donald Hall's poignant and courageous poetry speaks of the death of the magnificent, humorous, and gifted Jane Kenyon. Hall speaks to us all of grief, as a poet lamenting the death of a poet, as a hu
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 amo
This volume contains the finest short poetry Donald Hall has written, poems of landscape and love, of dedication and prophecy, poems that have won thousands of readers, as well as various prizes and
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in poetry, this serious, ambitious, and graceful book-length poem is the masterwork of one of America's foremost contemporary poets.
