### From Publishers Weekly "Though my preference is for/ an utterance that aims at more?/ a single splendid edifice,/ not an untidy humble nest...both are made of the same stuff,/ our ever-raveling human cloth." Starting with the torn, fragmentary images of her first collection, Starting from Troy
The Selected Poems of Donald Hall
β Scribed by Donald Hall
- Book ID
- 100574769
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Year
- 2015
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 166 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- Boston ; New York
- ISBN
- 1328745600
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
My Son My Executioner -- The Sleeping Giant -- The Lone Ranger -- Christmas Eve in Whitneyville -- An Airstrip in Essex, 1960 -- The Long River -- Love is Like Sounds -- White Apples -- The Alligator Bride -- "Reclining Figure" -- The Man in the Dead Machine -- The Repeated Shapes -- The Days -- Woolworth's -- Digging -- The Poem -- The Snow -- Self-Portrait as a Bear -- The Stump -- Mount Kearsarge -- To a Waterfowl -- Wolf Knife -- The Coal Fire -- Gold -- On Reaching the Age of Two Hundred -- Eating the Pig -- The Blue Wing -- Kicking the Leaves -- The Table -- Maple Syrup -- Old Roses -- Names of Horses -- Ox-Cart Man -- Flies -- The Town of Hill -- Great Day in the Cows' House -- Old Timers' Day -- Mr. Wakeville on Interstate 90 -- Moon Clock -- The Impossible Marriage -- Edward's Anecdote -- FΓͺte -- The Day I Was Older -- The Baseball Players -- When the Young Husband -- Prophecy -- Tubes -- The Peepers, the Woodshed -- T.R. -- Six Naps in One Day -- Nose -- Scenic View -- The Painted Bed -- The Porcelain Couple -- The Ship Pounding -- Without -- Letter with No Address -- Weeds and Peonies -- After Three Years -- Kill the Day -- The Revolution -- Her Garden -- Pond Afternoons -- Summer Kitchen -- Death Work -- The Wish -- Ardor -- Conversation -- Sun -- Spring Glen Grammar School -- 1943 -- The Things -- Tennis Ball -- Affirmation -- The Coffee Cup -- Hawk's Crag -- Black Olives -- The Master -- Meatloaf;"Former poet laureate Donald Hall selects the essential work from a life in poetry"--Publisher.
β¦ Subjects
Poetry
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