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Donald Hall’s remarkable life in poetry — a career capped by his appointment as U.S. poet laureate in 2006 — comes alive in this richly detailed, self-revealing memoir.
Hall’s invaluable record of the making of a poet begins with his childhood in Depression-era suburban Connecticut, where he first realized poetry was “secret, dangerous, wicked, and delicious,” and ends with what he calls “the planet of antiquity,” a time of life dramatically punctuated by his appointment as poet laureate of the United States.
Hall writes eloquently of the poetry and books that moved and formed him as a child and young man, and
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Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Release date: 2 September 2008
ISBN-10 : 0618990658 | ISBN-13: 9780618990658
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Read by My Wife (and Me) in 2019: Books (37 books items)