Breakfast Served Any Time All Day: Essays on Poetry New and Selected

Breakfast Served Any Time All Day collects forty years of writings on poetry in one essential volume by master of American letters Donald Hall. Praise for Breakfast Served:

… the essays in this book are engaging, passionate, strange, and unified. Hall has been around a long time, and you can trace the concerns of a generation through the mind of this one man: questions about the diminished scope of poetry, the diminished ambitions of poets, how a poem ‘means, ’ etc… . . Criticism … is an exercise in sanity, of which these essays are a splendid and useful example. -Poetry

A luminous and essential volume about the sensuality of language, its pleasures and sounds. -Ploughshares

It is in this merger of a poet’s biography and a poem’s body that Hall does his best work… . [Breakfast Served Any Time All Day] has an undeniably infectious quality to it. Finishing it, you cannot help but want to return to your bookshelf, and read-again or for the first time-the great forgotten poems of our past. -Nathan Greenwood Thompson, Rain Taxi