Donald Hall
Author profile
born
in New Haven, Connecticut, The United States
September 20, 1928
gender
male
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Ox-Cart Man
by Donald Hall, Barbara Cooney — published 1979 — 15 editions |
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Without: Poems
— published 1998 — 4 editions |
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The Best Day the Worst Day: Life with Jane Kenyon
— published 2005 — 6 editions |
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White Apples and the Taste of Stone: Selected Poems, 1946-2006
— published 2006 — 3 editions |
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The Painted Bed: Poems
— published 2002 — 3 editions |
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Life Work
— published 1993 — 6 editions |
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Unpacking the Boxes: A Memoir of a Life in Poetry
— published 2008 — 3 editions |
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String Too Short to Be Saved
— published 1980 — 4 editions |
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Old and New Poems
— published 1990 — 4 editions |
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Christmas at Eagle Pond
by Donald Hall, Mary Azarian — published 2012 |
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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
then wake to write you again
without hope that you read me.”
― Donald Hall
“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
― Donald Hall
“Safe Sex
If he and she do not know each other, and feel confident
they will not meet again; if he avoids affectionate words;
if she has grown insensible skin under skin; if they desire
only the tribute of another’s cry; if they employ each other
as revenge on old lovers or families of entitlement and steel—
then there will be no betrayals, no letters returned unread,
no frenzy, no hurled words of permanent humiliation,
no trembling days, no vomit at midnight, no repeated
apparition of a body floating face-down at the pond’s edge”
― Donald Hall
If he and she do not know each other, and feel confident
they will not meet again; if he avoids affectionate words;
if she has grown insensible skin under skin; if they desire
only the tribute of another’s cry; if they employ each other
as revenge on old lovers or families of entitlement and steel—
then there will be no betrayals, no letters returned unread,
no frenzy, no hurled words of permanent humiliation,
no trembling days, no vomit at midnight, no repeated
apparition of a body floating face-down at the pond’s edge”
― Donald Hall
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