The Selected Poems of Donald Hall - Rilegato

Hall, Donald

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ISBN 10: 0544555600 ISBN 13: 9780544555600

Casa editrice: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016

Riassunto

Former poet laureate Donald Hall selects the essential work from a moving and brilliant life in poetry.

Long-Listed for the 2016 National Book Award

Donald Hall is an American master, one of the nation’s most beloved and accomplished poets. Now in his eighties, having taken stock of the body of his work—rigorous, gorgeous verse that is the result of seventy years of “ambition and pleasure”—he strips it down. 

The Selected Poems of Donald Hall reflects the poet’s handpicked, concise selection, showcasing work rich with humor and eros and “a kind of simplicity that succeeds in engaging the reader in the first few lines” (Billy Collins).

From the enduring “My Son My Executioner” to “Names of Horses” to “Without,” Donald Hall’s best poems deliver “a banquet in the mouth” (Charles Simic) and an “aching elegance” (Baltimore Sun). For the first-time reader or an old friend, these are, above all others, the poems to read, reread, and remember.

 

“However wrenching [Hall’s poems] may be from line to line, they tell a story that is essentially reassuring: art and love are compatible, genius is companionable, and people stand by one another in the end” (New York Times Book Review). 

 

Su questo libro

Dalla quarta di copertina

Gold

Pale gold of the walls, gold
of the centers of daisies, yellow roses
pressing from a clear bowl. All day
we lay on the bed, my hand
stroking the deep
gold of your thighs and your back.
We slept and woke
entering the golden room together,
lay down in it breathing
quickly, then
slowly again,
caressing and dozing, your hand sleepily
touching my hair now.

We made in those days
tiny identical rooms inside our bodies
which the men who uncover our graves
will find in a thousand years,
shining and whole.

Dal risvolto di copertina interno

When I was twelve I wrote my first poem, and by fourteen I decided that s what I d do my whole life. I don t regret it. from the afterword by Donald Hall

Donald Hall is an American master, one of the nation s most beloved and accomplished poets. Now in his eighties, having taken stock of the body of his work rigorous, gorgeous verse that is the result of seventy years of ambition and pleasure he strips it down.

The Selected Poems of Donald Hall reflects the poet s handpicked, concise selection, showcasing work rich with humor and eros and a kind of simplicity that succeeds in engaging the reader in the first few lines (Billy Collins).

From the enduring My Son My Executioner to Names of Horses to Without, Donald Hall s best poems deliver a banquet in the mouth (Charles Simic) and an aching elegance (Baltimore Sun). For the first-time reader or an old friend, these are, above all others, the poems to read, reread, and remember.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0544555600
• ISBN 13: 9780544555600
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 148
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile