The Selected Poems of Donald Hall

Donald Hall

• Publisher: Mariner Books
• Year: 2015
• ISBN:
  9780544555617
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: American Poetry
• Index: Literature

The f ormer U.S. poet laureate presents the essential work from across his long and celebrated career in this sweeping collection. For decades, Donald Hall produced a body of work that established him as one of America's most significant—and beloved—poets of his generation. Celebrated for his plainspoken yet evocative imagery and his stirring explorations of bucolic life, Hall won numerous awards, including the Robert Frost Medal, the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, and the National Medal of Arts.

When Hall reached his eighties, his health began to decline, and he announced that the ability to write poemshas"abandoned" him. Looking back over his astonishingly rich body of work, Hall hand-picked his finest and most memorable poems for this final, concise, and essential volume.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Contents
• Copyright
• Dedication
• My Son My Executioner
• The Sleeping Giant
• The Lone Ranger
• Christmas Eve in Whitneyville
• An Airstrip in Essex, 1960
• The Long River
• Love Is Like Sounds
• White Apples
• The Alligator Bride
• “Reclining Figure”
• The Man in the Dead Machine
• The Repeated Shapes
• The Days
• Woolworth’s
• Digging
• The Poem
• The Snow
• Self-Portrait as a Bear
• The Stump
• Mount Kearsarge
• To a Waterfowl
• Wolf Knife
• The Coal Fire
• Gold
• On Reaching the Age of Two Hundred
• Eating the Pig
• The Blue Wing
• Kicking the Leaves
• The Table
• Maple Syrup
• Old Roses
• Names of Horses
• Ox-Cart Man
• Flies
• The Town of Hill
• Great Day in the Cows’ House
• Old Timers’ Day
• Mr. Wakeville on Interstate 90
• Moon Clock
• The Impossible Marriage
• Edward’s Anecdote
• Fête
• The Day I Was Older
• The Baseball Players
• When the Young Husband
• Prophecy
• Tubes
• The Peepers, the Woodshed
• T.R.
• Six Naps in One Day
• Nose
• Scenic View
• The Painted Bed
• The Porcelain Couple
• The Ship Pounding
• Without
• Letter with No Address
• Weeds and Peonies
• After Three Years
• Kill the Day
• The Revolution
• Her Garden
• Pond Afternoons
• Summer Kitchen
• Death Work
• The Wish
• Ardor
• Conversation
• Sun
• Spring Glen Grammar School
• 1943
• The Things
• Tennis Ball
• Affirmation
• The Coffee Cup
• Hawk’s Crag
• Black Olives
• The Master
• Meatloaf
• Postscriptum
• Sample Chapter from A CARNIVAL OF LOSSES
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