Donald Hall
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English
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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,...
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,...
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1990
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English
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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 1947 and 1990. Here are poems...
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 1947 and 1990. Here are poems...
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English
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Former poet laureate of the United States Donald Hall's final collection of essays, from the vantage point of very old age, once again "alternately lyrical and laugh-out-loud funny."*
*(New York Times)
"Why should a nonagenarian hold anything back?" Donald Hall answers his own question in these self-knowing, fierce, and funny essays on aging, the pleasures of solitude, and the sometimes astonishing freedoms arising from both.
Nearing ninety at...