Unpacking the Boxes

Author: Donald Hall
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780547247946
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 212

Book Description
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.

Without

Author: Donald Hall
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780395957653
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 100

Book Description
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

Author: Donald Hall
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547348789
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 521

Book Description
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.

Claims for Poetry

Author: Donald Hall
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472063086
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 524

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

The Oxford Illustrated Book of American Children's Poems

Author: Donald Hall
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195123735
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 98

Book Description
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.

Old and New Poems

Author: Donald Hall
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780899199542
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 260

Book Description
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

Author: Donald Hall
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472068524
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 236

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

To Read a Poem

Author: Donald Hall
Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 440

Book Description
To Read a Poem begins the study of poetry by examining whole poems, emphasizing the goal of reading is not the analysis of parts but the understanding of wholes. For a fuller definition of petry's elements, later chapters concentrate on parts. Selections are frequently modern or contemporary, supplementing them with biographical notes on all poets. To Read a Poem will help students read poetry with intelligence, gusto, and discrimination.

Kicking the Leaves

Author: Donald Hall
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 72

Book Description

Life Work

Author: Donald Hall
Publisher: Beacon Press
ISBN: 0807095427
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 140

Book Description
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.