A life well-lived in rural New England, through the eyes of a master essayist and poet. This collection includes Donald Hall's Seasons at Eagle Pond, Here at Eagle Pond, the poem ¿Daylilies on the Hill,¿ and many uncollected pieces. Here is Donald Hall on letter writing, possessions, the past, wood stoves, the weather, the Boston Red Sox, satellite dishes, and much more from Eagle Pond Farm ¿ his ancestral home in New Hampshire, where he visited his grandparents as a young boy. Throughout, Hall beautifully narrates the flow of one season into then next, taking the good with the bad and moving on, knowing that the cycle always begins again. Approaching all facets of life with a sense of simplicity and love, Hall¿s distills the human experience so uniquely that readers will return to these essays again and again, each time learning something new.
| Autor: | Hall, Donald |
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| ISBN: | 9781567925609 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Produktart: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Verlag: | Ingram Publishers Services |
| Veröffentlicht: | 14.04.2016 |
| Schlagworte: | Memoirs New England New Hampshire Rural communities |
Donald Hall was not only one of Americäs poet laureates but one of the great personal essayists. ¿If any American writer deserves the description of `man of letters,¿¿ the New York Times Book Review wrote, ¿it is Donald Hall.¿ Mr. Hall approached writing as he approached life¿with simplicity, affection, and a wry wit. He distilled the human experience with a sense of humor that readers will return to again and again, each time learning something new. His work glows with the affection he held for the land, the people, and the customs of rural New England, and especially for the small, New Hampshire dairy farm near Ragged Mountain he visited every summer as a child.