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    <body><![CDATA[Hall’s prose is always a good companion, whether he is recounting seasons on Eagle Pond, musing on work and life, or holding a reflective glass to his suffering through illness and tragedy, or merely recalling his childhood as the first part of his professional journey to his twilight years of dim...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40040380">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is so beautifully written and skillfully crafted, I read passages over and over again and took copious notes. Donald Hall's poetry has been a gift to me since I began to read his poetry in the early 1970's; he changed how I thought of poetry. To read how he came to be the writer he is...hi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60514387">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was disappointed by this book.  It seems to me that Hall is still more proud of his glory days at Harvard and Oxford than he is of anything else he's ever done.  The most interesting portion of this book was the last chapter, in which he describes what it's really like to grow old.  The language i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33418191">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Memoir of a poet: the boxes are the remains of his mother's estate,  objects from his childhood and adolescence, &quot;model airplanes and toy cars...a baseball glove with its oiled pocket chewed by mice...a thousand poems, novels I wrote at seventeen and nineteen.&quot;<br/>     Hall was ambitious...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39741579">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have been a Donald Hall fan since he spoke at my college. (In this book he talks about his years of traveling around the read at very colleges.) As part of my student job, I had to tape record him. He also signed my copies of the two anthologies he edited, NEW POETS OF ENGLAND AND AMERICA, the tex...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63157749">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;Unpacking the Boxes&quot; was my first introduction to Donald Hall's life as a poet/writer.  It was actually the title of the book that caught my interest since I have found myself unpacking boxes of books and materials five years later. His life is fascinating and we follow him from his early...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56165335">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[First I have to say that I really enjoyed this man's since of humor, he was quite funny. Bluntly funny. LOL!!! <br/><br/>But I loved this book becuase it offered, innocence, newness, sweetness, and a subtle and shocking sadness. It's about his beginning of life, his traveling journey to becoming w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40303584">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Who knew that life as a poet was so full of travel, parties, famous people and brilliant conversation?  Well, I guess if you're a poet with this pedigree it's to be expected. <br/>I liked his memoir about New Hampshire, <u>String Too Short to Be Saved</u>.  Apparently there is no such thing as a string to...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67419299">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is an interesting book about a very brilliant man.  Honestly, I had never heard of him before I started reading this.  Guess that goes to show what a good English major I was.  Anyway, he was born middle class and excelled to go to Exeter, Harvard and then Oxford.  And, the fact that he actuall...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43039695">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's like reading a list of famous poets, one after the other, who Donald Hall has amazingly known - taken classes with and had drinks with - and endless list of reasons to be jealous of his long life devoted to reading and writing. His writing is almost perfect. At times, it feels like reading Joyc...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40555153">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Having never read Hall's poetry I was interested in reading about his life first. This is a good place to start even though his path to being a poet is a rather well worn one. Hall also wrote a memoir about the death of his wife (the poet, Jane Kenyon), but after reading &quot;Without&quot;, Hall's ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40258819">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love Donald Hall so much, especially his work about his life with the poet Jane Kenyon.  This book doesn't deal with that topic in much depth, since he has another memoir, The Best Day the Worst Day, all about their marriage and Kenyon's death.  But this book is still entertaining and often moving...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77139074">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I so enjoyed reading this  even though it was depressing at times. Donald Hall was our Poet Laureate from 2006-07 and with his talent  tells the story of his life. From his youth in Connecticut to his academic career at Exeter, Harvard and Oxford his story probably rings true of many poets.  I would...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78893538">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Strong start, weaker finish. Hall seems to have been working on this memoir for some time, and begins to run out of gas in the final stages, as if determined to finish it. Less introspective than I would have expected, as a his long and remarkable life in poetry moves on to its final stages. Still,h...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42922099">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Completely forgettable but that's not necessarily a criticism coming from my brain. It's short - I was curious about a poets' life in 20/21st century America and I read it all compulsively in an afternoon. It did not change my life but I'd recommend it to poets and readers of contemporary poetry. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is not quite as exciting or insightful as I'd hoped. More autobiography than investigation into poetry, and the life story isn't that interesting. If you went to Harvard or Oxford, then the reminiscences and evocations of those places will be entertaining.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Really interesting and nice and short memoir...  The name dropping in the first half gets to be a bit much, but in general I loved reading about Hall's background.  His comments on performance were especially intriguing.(p. 131)  I'm glad that the part about Jane's illness and death were broken out ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39114289">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I didn't really find this that interesting except for the fact that he went to school with Edward Gorey and was married to a poet who I don't mind. I don't know why I kept reading it so much. I think it's because I'm nosy. <br/>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I particularly enjoyed the rich language in his 'nothing happened' childhood. THe middle was rather cumbersome with a lot of namedropping (he's entitled), but the rich prose returned when he poignantly described grieving his wife's death.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Honest, moving, interesting.  Another wonderful work of remembering by Donald Hall.  ]]></body>
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