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Winner of the Caldecott Medal Thus begins a lyrical journey through the days and weeks, the months, and the changing seasons in the life of one New En...
Poems
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....
A former poet laureate presents a new collection of essays delivering an unexpected view from the vantage point of very old age....
The revered American Poet Laureate reflects on the meaning of work, solitude, and love with “extraordinary nobility and wisdom” (The New York Time...
The former U.S. poet laureate presents the essential work from across his long and celebrated career in this sweeping collection. For decades, Donald ...
“With The One Day, this is his best work, a modest, skeptical, and brave poetry that embodies something essential about this late American century.�...
Prose Pieces
Hall takes readers on a tour of things he loves: baseball, the multipurposeness of the New Hampshire country store, poetry, and trees....
Gathers poems from each period of Hall's career, including "The One Day," the long poem that won the National Book Critics Circle Award....
Catherine Sloper lives in Washington Square with her widowed father, a wealthy physician. She is plain, shy, and lacks social graces and conversation....
Selected Poems, 1946-2006
Spanning the entire career of the celebrated American poet, a collection of 226 works represents sixty years of poetic endeavor, including recent poem...
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New Poems
The prize-winning poet’s collection of autobiographical poems is “the work of a master, all the more poignant for its frankness . . . in the face ...
The former US poet laureate delivers a book “filled with raw sexual disclosures, rowdy anger and a self-blasting mockery” (The New York Times). Do...
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 h...
This is a collection of stories diverse in subject, but sutured together by the limitless affection the author holds for the land and the people of Ne...
A man who had been unhappy as a child finds after he has grown up that he is happy living alone in his cabin in the New England woods....
A Memoir of a Life in Poetry
Former United States poet laureate Donald Hall reflects on his life, discussing his childhood in Connecticut, the works that influenced him, his educa...
The first full-length volume of poems in a decade by the former poet laureate of the United States In The Back Chamber, Donald Hall illuminates the ev...
Co-authored by two esteemed writers, "Writing Well," is a beautifully-written and thoroughly readable guide to the craft of writing prose. This concis...
A Poem in Three Parts
In a long poem, the narrator looks back on his childhood and shares his attitudes toward the past...
A collection of essays by contemporary American poets on the subject of their art...
In the fall of 1909, Lucy gets an early start on making Christmas presents for her family and friends, which they will open at the church's Christmas ...
New and Selected Stories
A contemplative selection of twelve short stories from the celebrated author Donald Hall, Willow Temple focuses on the effects of divorce, adultery, a...
Essays on Sport (Mostly Baseball)
The essays in Fathers Playing Catch with Sons are a wonderful mixture of reminiscence and observation, of baseball and of fathers and sons, of how a g...
From 1983 to 1998, poets Donald Hall and Jane Kenyon sent out a letterpress broadside poem each Christmas, printed by William Ewert of Concord New Ham...
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...
Depression affects a person mentally, spiritually, and physically, greatly impacting their lives and the people they love. With empathy and clear lang...
Life with Jane Kenyon
From the Publisher: Donald Hall's celebrated book of poems Without was written for his wife, Jane Kenyon, who died in 1995. Hall returns to this power...
Distinguished poet Donald Hall and award-winning artist Barry Moser have teamed up to create a hilarious, affectionate portrait in contrasts of our co...
Interviews, Essays, and Notes on Poetry, 1970-76
Lively, pointed, often polemical essays and interviews on the nature of creativity and the function of poetry...
Reminiscences and Opinions : Dylan Thomas, Robert Frost, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound
A young poet recalls his personal encounters with Robert Frost, Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, and Dylan Thomas and speaks of their private and literary conc...
John Ashbery, Donald Hall, Anthony Hecht, Donald Justice, Charles Simic, W.D. Snodgrass, Richard Wilbur
An exciting new collection of in-depth interviews with seven important American poets. Interviewees include Ashbery. Hall, Hecht. Justice, Simic. Snod...
Poems New and Selected
Remembering Poets and More Poets : Robert Frost, Dylan Thomas, T.S. Eliot, Archibald MacLeish, Yvor Winters, Marianne Moore, Ezra Pound
Donald Hall has written a vivid memoir of the eminent poets of our century. While still a student, Donald Hall came to know Robert Frost, Dylan Thomas...