Donald Hall
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English
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"The dying of a beloved wife and fellow poet makes for a bleak and lonely tale. But Donald Hall's poignant and courageous poetry, facing that dread fact, involves us all: the magnificent, humorous, and gifted woman, Jane Kenyon, who suffered and died; the doctors and nurses who tried but failed to save her; the neighbors, friends, and relatives who grieved for her; the husband who sat by her while she lived and afterward sat in their house alone with...
10) Lucy's Christmas
Author
Publisher
Browndeer Press, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
c1994
Language
English
Description
In the fall of 1909, Lucy gets an early start on making Christmas presents for her family and friends, which they will open at the church's Christmas program.
13) Old Home Day
Author
Publisher
Browndeer Press/Harcourt Brace & Company
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
Description
The story of the growth of a New Hampshire village from pre-history to the bicentennial celebration of its founding.
14) Ox-cart man
Author
Publisher
Viking Press
Pub. Date
[2019], 1979.
Language
English
Description
Describes the day-to-day life throughout the changing seasons of an early 19th-century New England family.
17) The back chamber
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
"The first full-length volume of poems in a decade by former poet laureate of the United States Donald Hall. In The Back Chamber, Donald Hall illuminates the evocative, iconic objects of deep memory--"a cowbell," "a white stone perfectly round," "a three-legged milking stool"--that serve to foreground the rich meditations on time and mortality that run through his remarkable new collection. While Hall's devoted readers will recognize many of his long-standing...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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"Donald Hall, drawing on his own childhood memories to create an instant-classic Christmas story, gives himself the thing he most wanted but didn't get as a boy: a Christmas at Eagle Pond. It's the Christmas season of 1940 and twelve-year-old Donnie takes the train to visit his grandparents. Once there, he quickly settles into the farm's routines. In the barn, Gramp milks the cows and entertains his grandson by speaking rhymed pieces, while his grandson's...
