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8 de sept. de 2015 · In the second of the fourteen essays on his life in old age, Donald Hall, former poet laureate and National Medal of Arts awardee, writes of his love for his craft and instructs the reader, “Essays, like poems and stories and novels, marry heaven and hell [and] if the essay doesn’t include contraries, however small they may be ...
A long poem that meditates on the on-set of old age, The One Day, like much of Hall’s early work, takes shape under formal pressure: composed of 110 stanzas, split over three sections, its final sections are written in blank verse.
Donald Hall ’51, who died in 2018 a few months shy of 90, was one of the rare poets with the opposite destiny: he was born to write about aging and being old.
24 de sept. de 2018 · 76K views 5 years ago. Before Donald Hall died this June, the 89-year-old American poet laureate let a filmmaker into his home in bucolic New Hampshire. In Paul Szynol’s Quiet Hours,...
7 de ene. de 2016 · Donald Hall, 2015 (Photograph by Michael Maren courtesy of Dani Shapiro) Eighty seems to be a singularly contemplative turning point — Oliver Sacks wrote beautifully about the redemptive rewards of old age upon turning eighty himself, as did Henry Miller in his decidedly optimistic reflection on life at eighty a generation earlier.
17 de abr. de 2016 · He was one of those rare creatures, a poet who writes into advanced age and illuminates the path for the rest of us. My earlier post from 2016, on Donald Hall and old age. The endless ageism of this election cycle has been a dispiriting spectacle for quite some time.
Donald Andrew Hall Jr. (September 20, 1928 – June 23, 2018) was an American poet, writer, editor, and literary critic. He was the author of over 50 books across several genres from children's literature, biography, memoir, essays, and including 22 volumes of verse.
