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A Carnival of Losses: Notes Nearing Ninety
By Hall, Donald
- ISBN
- 9781328826343 9781328826312
- Publisher
- Houghton Harcourt
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Library Journal
Starred Review on August 3, 2018 | NONFICTION
A kind of sequel to Essays After Eighty, this collection of brief writings from former U.S. poet laureate Hall (1928–2018) is filled with loss and pain yet always finds something to celebrate. Gathered quite literally as a set of notes, the pieces range in length from barely two sentences ("Allan Tate") to three to five pages, with the exception of "Necropoetics," a 20-page meditat...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
