The Old Life - Hardcover

Hall, Donald

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0395788412 ISBN 13: 9780395788417

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1996

Synopsis

A sequence of autobiographical poems by a venerable poet traces his life from his New Haven boyhood to his Harvard education to his friendship with Robert Frost to the tragic illness of his second wife. Tour.

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Review:

In his first book of poems since the death of his wife, the gifted poet Jane Kenyon, Hall reviews his life, considering and re-casting scenes that have haunted him. These include his great-uncle's hands, "white as Wonder bread," a ruined Halloween, and T.S. Eliot's advice to young Hall, newly arrived at Oxford: "Have you any long underwear?" It is Kenyon's death, though, that Hall is moving toward. His simple lines speak worlds about grief's searing intensity.

About the Author:

DONALD HALL, poet laureate of the United States from 2006 to 2007, has received the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in poetry, the Lenore Marshall Award, the 1990 Frost Medal from the Poetry Society of America, and the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

About this edition

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0395788412
• ISBN 13: 9780395788417
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 134