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Donald Hall
The essential poems, selected by Donald Hall: the hard-won achievement of a lifetime (Wall Street Journal)
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Now in paperback comes a magnificent anthology that returns to readers the forgotten treasures of American children’s poetry. It starts with anonymous Native American verses and spans two centuries of…
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A collection of American poems written for children or traditionally enjoyed by children, by such authors as Longfellow, Poe, Eugene Field, Langston Hughes, Dr. Seuss, and Jack Prelutsky.
Offers a unique glimpse into the creative process of a major American poet, writer, editor, anthologist, and teacher. The volume probes in depth Donald Hall’s evolving views on poetry, poets…
America’s newest Poet Laureate–author of more than 30 books of poetry and prose. Donald Hall performs dozens of his poems and six of his works of prose.
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A master of American letters collects forty years of writings on poetry in one essential volume
The author of Life Work, a celebration of meaningful work and a chronicle of the author’s own mortality, now takes readers on a tour of things he loves: baseball, the…
A collection of essays by contemporary American poets on the subject of their art
Within the pages of this anthology, now in its second edition, you’ll find 39 American poets from across the twentieth century. In his introduction, editor and Guggenheim fellow Donald Hall…
This collection brings together for the first time all of Hall’s writing on Eagle Pond Farm, his ancestral home in New Hampshire. It includes Seasons at Eagle Pond and Here…
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…
Donald Hall spent his childhood in Depression-era suburban Connecticut, where as the doted-upon son of dramatically thwarted parents he first realized poetry was ‘secret, dangerous, wicked, and delicious’. This book…
By turns furious and resigned, spirited and despairing, Hall’s masterly follow-up to Without reexamines his grief over the death of his wife, the poet Jane Kenyon, and considers the life…
A companion volume to the Oxford Book of Children’s Verse, this book focuses on American writers and poets and includes anonymous works, ballads, and recitation pieces, beginning with the Calvinist…
Donald Hall has lived a remarkable life of letters, one capped most recently by the New York Times bestseller Essays After Eighty, a treasure of a book in which he…
From his grandparents, poet Donald Hall learned that craft–be it canning vegetables, writing poems, or carting manure–creates its own absorbedness that no wage can equal. His affecting memoir on life…
From a former poet laureate, a new collection of essays delivering a gloriously unexpected view from the vantage point of very old age.
Distinguished poet Donald Hall and award-winning artist Barry Moser have teamed up to create a hilarious, affectionate portrait in contrasts of our companions, and often best friends, a cat and…
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.
This explores the history of theories of selfhood, from the Classical Era to the present, and demonstrates how those theories can be applied in literary and cultural criticism.
A candid memoir of love, art, and grief from a celebrated man of letters, United States poet laureate Donald Hall In an intimate record of his twenty-three-year marriage to poet…
Cengage Learning Gale
A Study Guide for Donald Hall’s Names of Horses, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical…
A spirited defense of the vitality of contemporary poetry.
Like a pastoral symphony translated into picture book format, the stunning combination of text and illustrations recreates the mood of 19-century rural New England. – The Horn Book. 1980 Caldecott…
This is Donald Hall’s most advanced works extending his poetic reach even beyond his recent volumes, The One Day and Old and New Poems. Conflict dominates this book, and conflict…
Consists of the title poem, which is an autobiographical sequence, preceded by two poems - The Night of the Day and The Thirteenth Inning . The book concludes with Without…
In these tender essays, Hall shares his memories and thoughts on growing up in New Hampshire on his grandparent’s dairy farm, of the seasons, and of his connection to the…
Gathers poems from each period of Hall’s career, including The One Day, the long poem that won the National Book Critics Circle Award.
Throughout his career, Hall has garnered numerous accolades and honors, culminating in 2006 with his appointment as poet laureate of the U.S. This work collects more than 200 poems from…
Joe Donald Hall
This is a book about aging, and aging joyfully. This is a book about aging and aging joyfully. The author takes us on an exciting trip on how to achieve…
Hall’s short stories give a breathtakingly successful ( Chicago Tribune ) account of the passionate weight of lives.
Donald Hall,Dock Ellis
Recounts the life and career of the flamboyant, outspoken, and controversial black pitcher, tracing his sometimes outrageous way from Los Angeles childhood, through eight seasons with Pittsburgh, to his current…
Donald Hall has lived a remarkable life of letters, a career capped by a National Medal of the Arts, awarded by the president. Now, in the unknown, unanticipated galaxy of…
Former Poet Laureate Donald Hall draws from his own childhood memories in this moving and masterful story to give himself the thing he most wanted but didn’t get as a…
"A version of this book was originally published by Ticknor & Fields, a division of Houghton Mifflin, in 1992 under the title Their Ancient Glittering Eyes."--Title page verso.
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Share an old-fashioned New England Christmas with your children-back to a time when making the presents was far more satisfying than buying them.
Lucy Wells likes planning ahead. In her…
A collection of poems, which bring readers back to a simpler and gentler America in which pleasure was derived from making as much as buying, where politics were truly local…
Illustrated throughout with elegant woodcuts, A Mind of Winter collects some 30 of the most moving poems on the experience of winter. Contributors include James Russell Lowell, John Greenleaf Whittier…
Donald Hall,Sven Birkerts
Co-authored by two esteemed writers,
Donald E. Hall
Queer Theories explores and expands the field of sexual identity studies. It covers the history of the terms ‘gay’ and ‘lesbian’ as identity categories, the reclamation of the word ‘queer’…
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Donald P. Hall
Depression affects a person mentally, spiritually, and physically, greatly impacting their lives and the people they love. With empathy and clear language, psychiatrist Donald Hall explains recent scientific discoveries about…
