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Donald Hall

Born

in New Haven, Connecticut, The United States

September 20, 1928

Died

June 24, 2018

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Donald Hall was an American poet, writer, editor and literary critic. He began writing as an adolescent and attended the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference at the age of sixteen—the same year he had his first work published. Donald Hall published numerous books of poetry. Besides poetry, Donald Hall wrote books on baseball, the sculptor Henry Moore, and the poet Marianne Moore. He was also the author of children's books. Hall edited more than two dozen textbooks and anthologies. His honors include two Guggenheim fellowships, the Poetry Society of America's Robert Frost Silver medal, a Lifetime Achievement award from the New Hampshire Writers and Publisher Project, and the Ruth Lilly Prize for poetry. Hall also served as Poet Laureate of New Ham ...more

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	Ox-Cart Man by Donald Hall, Barbara Cooney (Illustrator) 4.08 avg rating — 15,246 ratings — published 1979 — 37 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Without: Poems 4.34 avg rating — 1,744 ratings — published 1998 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Essays After Eighty 4.12 avg rating — 1,634 ratings — published 2014 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Carnival Of Losses: Notes Nearing Ninety 4.01 avg rating — 732 ratings — published 2018 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Best Day the Worst Day: Life with Jane Kenyon 4.21 avg rating — 678 ratings — published 2005 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Life Work 4.10 avg rating — 549 ratings — published 1993 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	String Too Short to Be Saved: Recollections of Summers on a New England Farm by Donald Hall, Mimi Korach (Illustrator) 4.24 avg rating — 407 ratings — published 1980 — 31 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	White Apples and the Taste of Stone: Selected Poems, 1946-2006 4.17 avg rating — 363 ratings — published 2006 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Painted Bed: Poems 4.03 avg rating — 351 ratings — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Unpacking the Boxes: A Memoir of a Life in Poetry 3.78 avg rating — 372 ratings — published 2008 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Poets on Poetry (132 books)
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Donald Hall

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Lucy (2 books)
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Michael McCurdy (Illustrator)

3.98 avg rating — 205 ratings

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“You think that their
dying is the worst
thing that could happen.

Then they stay dead.”
― Donald Hall

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“I read poems for the pleasure of the mouth. My heart is in my mouth, and the sound of poetry is the way in." ~from an interview in Narrative magazine”
― Donald Hall

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“I want to sleep like the birds
then wake to write you again
without hope that you read me.”
― Donald Hall

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