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Donald Hall
The essential poems, selected by Donald Hall: the hard-won achievement of a lifetime (Wall Street Journal)
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Now in paperback comes a magnificent anthology that returns to readers the forgotten treasures of American children’s poetry. It starts with anonymous Native American verses and spans two centuries of…
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A collection of American poems written for children or traditionally enjoyed by children, by such authors as Longfellow, Poe, Eugene Field, Langston Hughes, Dr. Seuss, and Jack Prelutsky.
Offers a unique glimpse into the creative process of a major American poet, writer, editor, anthologist, and teacher. The volume probes in depth Donald Hall’s evolving views on poetry, poets…
A collection of essays on the work of contemporary poets
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A spirited defense of the vitality of contemporary poetry.
These essays and interviews from 1970-76 are lively, pointed, often polemical. They derive from a unified point of view about creativity and about the function of poetry. For the interested…
The author of Life Work, a celebration of meaningful work and a chronicle of the author’s own mortality, now takes readers on a tour of things he loves: baseball, the…
A collection of essays by contemporary American poets on the subject of their art
Within the pages of this anthology, now in its second edition, you’ll find 39 American poets from across the twentieth century. In his introduction, editor and Guggenheim fellow Donald Hall…
This is Donald Hall’s most advanced works extending his poetic reach even beyond his recent volumes, The One Day and Old and New Poems. Conflict dominates this book, and conflict…
A compelling collection of essays on the state of contemporary poetry
A master of American letters collects forty years of writings on poetry in one essential volume
These vivid New Hampshire farm sketches from Hall’s well-spent youth-all written when he was full-grown-are as much attuned to the supple and enticing utilities of language as they are grounded…
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 at Eagle Pond and Here…
Consists of the title poem, which is an autobiographical sequence, preceded by two poems - The Night of the Day and The Thirteenth Inning . The book concludes with Without…
Distinguished poet Donald Hall and award-winning artist Barry Moser have teamed up to create a hilarious, affectionate portrait in contrasts of our companions, and often best friends, a cat and…
By turns furious and resigned, spirited and despairing, Hall’s masterly follow-up to Without reexamines his grief over the death of his wife, the poet Jane Kenyon, and considers the life…
A companion volume to the Oxford Book of Children’s Verse, this book focuses on American writers and poets and includes anonymous works, ballads, and recitation pieces, beginning with the Calvinist…
Donald Hall spent his childhood in Depression-era suburban Connecticut, where as the doted-upon son of dramatically thwarted parents he first realized poetry was ‘secret, dangerous, wicked, and delicious’. This book…
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.
From his grandparents, poet Donald Hall learned that craft–be it canning vegetables, writing poems, or carting manure–creates its own absorbedness that no wage can equal. His affecting memoir on life…
From a former poet laureate, a new collection of essays delivering a gloriously unexpected view from the vantage point of very old age.
Donald Hall has lived a remarkable life of letters, one capped most recently by the New York Times bestseller Essays After Eighty, a treasure of a book in which he…
A collection of searching and candid conversations-ranging from dialogues to tongue-in-cheek diatribes-on the issues that face literary and cultural critics. This volume bares professional concerns, relationships, ambitions, and insecurities about…
This explores the history of theories of selfhood, from the Classical Era to the present, and demonstrates how those theories can be applied in literary and cultural criticism.
A candid memoir of love, art, and grief from a celebrated man of letters, United States poet laureate Donald Hall In an intimate record of his twenty-three-year marriage to poet…
Cengage Learning Gale
A Study Guide for Donald Hall’s Names of Horses, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical…
Gathers poems from each period of Hall’s career, including The One Day, the long poem that won the National Book Critics Circle Award.
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 his connection to the…
Throughout his career, Hall has garnered numerous accolades and honors, culminating in 2006 with his appointment as poet laureate of the U.S. This work collects more than 200 poems from…
Joe Donald Hall
This is a book about aging, and aging joyfully. This is a book about aging and aging joyfully. The author takes us on an exciting trip on how to achieve…
Hall’s short stories give a breathtakingly successful ( Chicago Tribune ) account of the passionate weight of lives.
Donald Hall,Dock Ellis
Recounts the life and career of the flamboyant, outspoken, and controversial black pitcher, tracing his sometimes outrageous way from Los Angeles childhood, through eight seasons with Pittsburgh, to his current…
Donald Hall,Sven Birkerts
Co-authored by two esteemed writers,
Illustrated throughout with elegant woodcuts, A Mind of Winter collects some 30 of the most moving poems on the experience of winter. Contributors include James Russell Lowell, John Greenleaf Whittier…
Former Poet Laureate Donald Hall draws from his own childhood memories in this moving and masterful story to give himself the thing he most wanted but didn’t get as a…
Like a pastoral symphony translated into picture book format, the stunning combination of text and illustrations recreates the mood of 19-century rural New England .–The Horn Book. 1980 Caldecott Medal…
