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The old life

By Hall, Donald Herbert

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For nearly forty years, through changes in fashion and form, Donald Hall has stood in the front rank of American poets. In his twelfth book of poems, The Old Life, the title poem is a long autobiographical sequence. It is preceded by two substantial poems: "The Night of the Day," which makes a thematic connection with his Old and New Poems (1990), and "The Thirteenth Inning," which bridges the gap between this book and his remarkable 1993 collection, The Museum of Clear Ideas. The book concludes with a heartbreaking lyric, "Without," commemorating the illness of his adored wife, the poet Jane Kenyon, who died in 1995.

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ISBN
978-0-39578-841-7
Publisher
Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1996.


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Library Journal

Reviewed on June 1, 1996

Hall solidifies his reputation as a major poet with this book. The title poem is a long, autobiographical examination of a life that has embraced the pleasures and pains of marriage, the ups and downs of a literary career, and the mistakes of youth and wisdom of old age. The poem places intimacy at the forefront of all relationships, as when Hall reflects: "when my daughter was four/ o...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

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