Without : Poems

by Hall, Donald

• ISBN13: 9780395957653
• ISBN10: 0395957656
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-04-14
• Publisher: Lightning Source Inc

Summary

Donald Hall's poignant and courageous poetry speaks of the death of the magnificent, humorous, and gifted Jane Kenyon. Hall speaks to us all of grief, as a poet lamenting the death of a poet, as a husband mourning the loss of a wife. Without is Hall's greatest and most honorable achievement-his gift and testimony, his lament and his celebration of loss and of love.

Author Biography

DONALD HALL, poet laureate of the United States from 2006 to 2007, has received the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in poetry, the Lenore Marshall Award, the 1990 Frost Medal from the Poetry Society of America, and the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Table of Contents

Her Long Illness	p. 1
"A Beard for a Blue Pantry"	p. 2
Song for Lucy	p. 6
The Porcelain Couple	p. 10
The Ship Pounding	p. 15
Air Shatters in the Car's Small Room	p. 18
Blues for Polly	p. 31
Last Days	p. 35
Without	p. 46
The Gallery	p. 48
Letter with No Address	p. 49
Independence Day Letter	p. 53
Letter from Washington	p. 54
Midsummer Letter	p. 55
Letter in Autumn	p. 59
Letter at Christmas	p. 63
Letter in the New Year	p. 68
Postcard: January 22nd	p. 73
Midwinter Letter	p. 74
Letter after a Year	p. 77
Weeds and Peonies	p. 81
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