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HALL, DONALD Eagle Pond
Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin Company; Mariner Books. 2007. (ISBN: 0618839348) Trade Paperback , 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ill.: Nason, Thomas W. xv, 255 pp. illus.; 23 cm. Illustrations by Thomas W. Nason. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. One leaf dogeared. "This original paperback brings together for the first time all of Donald Hall's writing on Eagle Pond Farm, his ancestral home in New Hampshire, where he visited his grandparents as a young boy and then lived with his wife Jane Kenyon until her death. It includes the entire, previously published Seasons at Eagle Pond and Here at Eagle Pond; the poem 'Daylilies on the Hill' from The Painted Bed; and several uncollected essays. / Donald Hall is the fourteenth poet laureate of the United States and the author of more than two dozen books of poems and prose, including White Apples and the Taste of Stone: Selected Poems 1946-2006. His work has garnered many honors, among them the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in poetry for The One Day; the Lenore Marshall Award for The Happy Man; the Robert Frost Silver Medal from the Poetry Society of America for Old and New Poems; and the prestigious Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize in recognition of his lifetime accomplishments. His poetry collection Without, which was written for Jane Kenyon during and after her illness, received the L. L. Winship/PEN New England Award and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Hall continues to inhabit the New Hampshire farmhouse where he and Jane Kenyon lived together." - Publisher. Very Good.
Offered for US$ 6.00 by: Left Coast Books - Book number: 036274