Seasons at Eagle Pond - Hardcover

Donald Hall

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0899195423 ISBN 13: 9780899195421

Publisher: Ticknor & Fields, 1987

Synopsis

A heartfelt celebration of the New England seasons in a charmingly illustrated, slipcased gift edition by New England's pre-eminent poet. Lyrical, comic and elegiac, it sings of a land and culture that is disappearing under the assault of change.

About this title

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.

From Publishers Weekly:

In celebration of New England and the seasons, the poet laureate of New Hampshire records his love of place. The place is a 180-year-old farmland, Eagle Pond, the home of Hall's grandparents and now his home. "There's no reason to live here except for love," writes Hall as he describes the sight of huge Holsteins frolicking or, when impatient for the arrival of spring, he suggests pushing winter "off to a condominium in the keys of Antarctica." This collection of four essays by a close observer of the natural world is a blend of reminiscences, anecdotes and vignettes that capture continuity of family and the quiet delights of rural life in each season. Hall is the author of String Too Short to Be Saved and Fathers Playing Catch With Sons. (November
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About this edition

• Publisher: Ticknor & Fields
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0899195423
• ISBN 13: 9780899195421
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 86
• Illustrator: Thomas W. Nason