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Open LibraryAbout this book
For nearly forty years, through changes in fashion and form, Donald Hall has stood in the front rank of American poets. In his twelfth book of poems, The Old Life, the title poem is a long autobiographical sequence. It is preceded by two substantial poems: "The Night of the Day," which makes a thematic connection with his Old and New Poems (1990), and "The Thirteenth Inning," which bridges the gap between this book and his remarkable 1993 collection, The Museum of Clear Ideas. The book concludes with a heartbreaking lyric, "Without," commemorating the illness of his adored wife, the poet Jane Kenyon, who died in 1995.
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Poetry (poetic works by one author)American poetry
First published 1996About the author
Donald Hall
20 September 1928 – 23 June 2018
Donald Andrew Hall Jr. (September 20, 1928 – June 23, 2018) was an American poet, writer, editor and literary critic. He was the author of over 50 books across several genres from children's literature, biography, memoir, essays, and including 22 volumes of verse. Hall was a graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy, Harvard, and Oxford. Early in his career, he became the first poetry editor of The Paris Review (1953–1961), the quarterly literary journal, and was noted for interviewing poets and other authors on their craft. On June 14, 2006, Hall was appointed as the Library of Congress's 14th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry (commonly known as "Poet Laureate of the United States"). He is re…
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