Donald Hallauthor profile |
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| born | September 20, 1928 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| gender | male | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| place of birth | New Haven, Connecticut, United States | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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about this author
Donald Hall was born in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1928. 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. He earned a B.A. from Harvard in 1951 and a B. Litt. from Oxford in 1953. Donald Hall has published numerous books of poetry, most recently White Apples and the Taste of Stone: Selected Poems 1946-2006 (Houghton Mifflin, 2006); The Painted Bed (2002) and Without: Poems (1998), which was published on the third anniversary of his wife and fellow poet Jane Kenyon's death from leukemia. Other notable collections include The One Day (1988), which won the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and a Pulitze...more |
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books by Donald Hallcombine editionsavg rating: 4.21 | 856 ratings | 78 distinct works
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quotes by Donald Hall
""To desire to write poems that endure-we undertake such a goal certain of two things: that in all likelihood we will fail, and if we succeed we will never know it"
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— Donald Hall
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— Donald Hall
"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












