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Hardcover. Pub Date: 2011 09 Pages: 96 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Praise for the poetry of Donald Hall His Reliance on simple concrete diction and the no-nonsense sequence of as declarative sentence Gives his poems Steadiness and imbues them WITH a tone of sincere authority ... The mood of loss than attends the passing of generations saturates this collection. -Billy Collins. Washington Post Book World Hall's ability to unflinchingly revisit memories of personal suffering with his full heart and intelligence. and to find for that suffering a meaningful expression. is the hard-won achievement of a lifetime. -David Yezzi. Wall Street Journal
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"If the poems in it are relatively somber, they're equally witty, consummately well-crafted." --"Booklist", STARRED review "Featuring moving, amusing, musical poems about love, aging, and baseball, this work will have broad appeal and is recommended for all collections."--"Library Journal" "The former U.S. poet laureate reaches his 20th book in unmistakably honest form..." --"Publishers Weekly"
"For the reader boiling in triple-digit SoCal heat at the end of the summer, Donald Hall's "The Back Chamber: Poems" arrives like a sudden cloudburst and shower of cooling rain. . .A former U.S. poet laureate, Hall has always had this elemental power to vividly evoke his particular New England climate and geography so that it can't be mistaken for any other but what is more unexpected in this new collection of poems, his 16th, is passion."--LA Times "If the poems in it are relatively somber, they re equally witty, consummately well-crafted." --Booklist, STARRED review"Featuring moving, amusing, musical poems about love, aging, and baseball, this work will have broad appeal and is recommended for all collections." Library Journal"The former U.S. poet laureate reaches his 20th book in unmistakably honest form..." --Publishers Weekly"
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"For the reader boiling in triple-digit SoCal heat at the end of the summer, Donald Hall's "The Back Chamber: Poems" arrives like a sudden cloudburst and shower of cooling rain. . .A former U.S. poet laureate, Hall has always had this elemental power to vividly evoke his particular New England climate and geography so that it can't be mistaken for any other but what is more unexpected in this new collection of poems, his 16th, is passion."--LA Times "If the poems in it are relatively somber, they re equally witty, consummately well-crafted." --Booklist, STARRED review"Featuring moving, amusing, musical poems about love, aging, and baseball, this work will have broad appeal and is recommended for all collections." Library Journal"The former U.S. poet laureate reaches his 20th book in unmistakably honest form..." --Publishers Weekly"
Praise for the poetry of Donald Hall
His reliance on simple, concrete diction and the no-nonsense sequence of the declarative sentence gives his poems steadiness and imbues them with a tone of sincere authority . . . The mood of loss than attends the passing of generations saturates this collection. Billy Collins, Washington Post Book World
Hall s ability to unflinchingly revisit memories of personal suffering with his full heart and intelligence, and to find for that suffering a meaningful expression, is the hard-won achievement of a lifetime. David Yezzi, Wall Street Journal
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His reliance on simple, concrete diction and the no-nonsense sequence of the declarative sentence gives his poems steadiness and imbues them with a tone of sincere authority . . . The mood of loss than attends the passing of generations saturates this collection. Billy Collins, Washington Post Book World
Hall s ability to unflinchingly revisit memories of personal suffering with his full heart and intelligence, and to find for that suffering a meaningful expression, is the hard-won achievement of a lifetime. David Yezzi, Wall Street Journal
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