Breakfast Served Any Time All Day collects forty years of writings on poetry in one essential volume by master of American letters Donald Hall. Praise for Breakfast Served:

… the essays in this book are engaging, passionate, strange, and unified. Hall has been around a long time, and you can trace the concerns of a generation through the mind of this one man: questions about the diminished scope of poetry, the diminished ambitions of poets, how a poem ‘means, ’ etc… . . Criticism … is an exercise in sanity, of which these essays are a splendid and useful example. -Poetry

A luminous and essential volume about the sensuality of language, its pleasures and sounds. -Ploughshares

It is in this merger of a poet’s biography and a poem’s body that Hall does his best work… . [Breakfast Served Any Time All Day] has an undeniably infectious quality to it. Finishing it, you cannot help but want to return to your bookshelf, and read-again or for the first time-the great forgotten poems of our past. -Nathan Greenwood Thompson, Rain Taxi