Donald Hall
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
xv, 431 pages ; 24 cm + 1 audio disc (79 min. ; 4 3/4 in.)
Language
English
Description
This retrospective collection of verse from the former US poet laureate and National Medal of Arts winner spans six decades of celebrated work.
Throughout his writing life, Donald Hall has garnered numerous accolades and honors, culminating in 2006 with his appointment as poet laureate of the United States. White Apples and the Taste of Stone collects more than two hundred poems from across sixty years of Hall's celebrated career, and includes poems...
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
82 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The first full-length volume of poems in a decade by the former poet laureate of the United States. He illuminates the evocative, iconic objects of deep memory--"a cowbell," "a white stone perfectly round," "a three-legged milking stool"--that serve to foreground the rich meditations on time and mortality that run through his remarkable new collection. While Hall's devoted readers will recognize many of his long-standing preoccupations--baseball,...
Author
Pub. Date
1998
Physical Desc
81 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
You might expect the fact of dying-the dying of a beloved wife and fellow poet-to make for a bleak and lonely tale. But Donald Hall's poignant and courageous poetry, facing that dread fact, involves us all: the magnificent, humorous, and gifted woman, Jane Kenyon, who suffered and died, the doctors and nurses who tried but failed to save her, the neighbors, friends, and relatives who grieved for her, the husband who sat by her while she lived and...
Author
Physical Desc
vi, 120 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
This is Donald Hall's most advanced work, extending his poetic reach even beyond his recent volumes. Conflict dominates this book, and conflict unites it. Hall takes poetry as an instrument for revelation, whether in an elegy for a (fictional) contemporary poet, or in the title series of poems, whose form imitates the first book of the Odes of Horace. The book's final section, "Extra Innings," moves with poignancy to questions about the end of the...
10) Queer theories
Author
Series
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
1 online resource (x, 214 pages).
Language
English
14) Old Home Day
Author
Pub. Date
1994
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
AD 1060L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 x 29 cm
Language
English
16) Lucy's Christmas
Author
Pub. Date
1994
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
40 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 24 x 26 cm
Language
English
17) Ox-cart man
Author
Series
Lexile measure
AD 1130L
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Describes the day-to-day life of an early nineteenth-century New England family throughout the changing seasons.