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Life Work
by
Donald Hall
Distinguished poet Donald Hall reflects on the meaning of work, solitude, and love
"The best new book I have read this year, of extraordinary nobility and wisdom. It will remain with me always." --Louis Begley, The New York Times
"A sustained meditation on work as the key to personal happiness. . . . Life Work reads most of all like a first-person psychologi...more
"The best new book I have read this year, of extraordinary nobility and wisdom. It will remain with me always." --Louis Begley, The New York Times
"A sustained meditation on work as the key to personal happiness. . . . Life Work reads most of all like a first-person psychologi...more
Paperback, 123 pages
Published
April 15th 2003
by Beacon Press
(first published 1993)
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I love Donald Hall's poetry and prose--it all reads like poetry to me. I especially love his recollections of his family history and the places that are dear to him.
I flat out adore the soulfulness of Hall's writing. Memoir or poetry, poetry and memoir, they all entrace me.
very interessting book not really what im into though
had to read it for class
had to read it for class
Memoir from a poet and author that loosely hinges on “Work”, which for the author is mostly writing. He fluffs things out a bit with details on ancestors and olden days. There’s really not enough material brought in to make this memoir memorable or instructive. The author was married to poet Jane Kenyon before her premature death at 48. That’s what I would have liked to have heard more about.
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An interesting- somewhat amusing- and somewhat informative book about Hall and his writing life. Talks a great deal about his relatives- and their lives as farmers and dairy owners- and how all this ties into his own work ethics as a writer. Worth reading again.
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gonna be writing my 3rd semester craft paper on Hall/Kenyon (go team creative writing MFA programme!), and i found this at a used bookstore while looking for 'unpacking the boxes,' but i'll take what the fates have sent my way. so far so great!
'Life Work' reads like a pre-write for 'The Best Day/The Worst Day', where he comes off much more human & loving, and less self-righteous & egotistical than he does here.
This is an inspiring book on many levels. I read it years ago and it still sticks with me.
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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: Sele...more
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