Death to the Death of Poetry: Essays, Reviews, Notes, Interviews (Poets on Poetry)
by Donald Hall
Poets on Poetry
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A spirited defense of the vitality of contemporary poetry.Tags
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This is a charming and likeable volume. Donald Hall certainly wants to come off as reasonable and friendly, but the tone here is almost chatty in a way associated with people much older than he was. If you have read other volumes of his you will find little that is new here, Some of the pieces are fugitive indeed. the largest amount of space is taken up by interviews in which Hall covers territory mostly covered elsewhere before. there are nice, if not ground-breaking pieces on Gunn, Berryman, Roethke, Snodgrass, and Bly.
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Donald Andrew Hall Jr. was born in New Haven, Connecticut on September 20, 1928. He received a bachelor's degree from Harvard University in 1951. His first collection of poetry, Exiles and Marriages, was published in 1955. His other collections included Without, The Museum of Clear Ideas, and The Painted Bed. He received several awards including show more the National Book Critics Circle Award for The One Day, the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize for The Happy Man, the Poetry Society of America's Robert Frost Silver medal, and the Ruth Lilly Prize for poetry. He served as poetry editor of The Paris Review from 1953 to 1962 and was the United States poet laureate for 2006-2007. He was also a memoirist, an essayist, and the author of textbooks and children's books. His memoirs were entitled Life Work and Unpacking the Boxes. His children's book, Ox-Cart Man illustrated by Barbara Cooney, won the Caldecott Medal. He received a National Medal of Arts in 2011. He died on June 23, 2018 at the age of 89. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Literature Studies and Criticism, Fiction and Literature, Poetry
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- 811.5409 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American poetry 20th Century 1945-1999
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- PS3515 .A3152 .Z463 — Language and Literature American literature American literature Individual authors 1900-1960
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