White Apples And The Taste Of Stone

Author : Donald Hall
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780618919994
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book White Apples and the Taste of Stone written by Donald Hall and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2007 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanning the entire career of the celebrated American poet, a collection of 226 works represents sixty years of poetic endeavor, including recent poems and a CD containing readings by the author.

Author : Donald Hall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 431 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Author : Donald Hall
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0547347057
Total Pages : 111 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Painted Bed written by Donald Hall and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2003-05-07 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The former US poet laureate delivers a book “filled with raw sexual disclosures, rowdy anger and a self-blasting mockery” (The New York Times). Donald Hall’s fourteenth collection opens with an epigraph from the Urdu poet Faiz: “The true subject of poetry is the loss of the beloved.” In that poetic tradition, as in The Painted Bed, the beloved might be a person or something else—life itself, or the disappearing countryside. Hall’s new poems further the themes of love, death, and mourning so powerfully introduced in his Without (1998), but from the distance of passed time. A long poem, “Daylilies on the Hill 1975-1989,” moves back to the happy repossession of the poet’s old family house and its history—a structure that “persisted against assaults” as its generations of residents could not. These poems are by turns furious and resigned, spirited and despairing—”mania is melancholy reversed,” as Hall writes in another long poem, “Kill the Day.” In this book’s fourth and final section, “Ardor,” the poet moves toward acceptance of new life in old age; eros reemerges. “More controlled, more varied and more powerful, this taut follow-up volume [to Without] reexamines Hall’s grief while exploring the life he has made since. The book’s first poem, ‘Kill the Day,’ stands among the best Hall has ever written.” —Publishers Weekly “A compelling, sometimes shocking, and certainly deeply moving depiction of bereavement.” —Poetry “Hall has continued growing as a poet, and his steady readers may consider this his finest collection . . . Bleakness and beauty characterize the reminiscent lyrics that follow, too, joined by a breathtaking bluntness.” —Booklist

Author : Donald Hall
Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN 13 : 9781567925548
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book String Too Short to be Saved written by Donald Hall and published by David R. Godine Publisher. This book was released on 2015 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of stories diverse in subject but united by the limitless affection the author holds for the land and the people of New England. Donald Hall tells about life on a small farm where, as a boy, he spent summers with his grandparents. Gradually the boy grows to be a young man, sees his grandparents aging, the farm become marginal, and finally, the cows sold and the barn abandoned. But these are more than nostalgic memories, for in the measured and tender prose of each episode are signs of the end of things: a childhood, perhaps a culture. In an Epilogue written for this edition, Donald Hall describes his return to the farm twenty-five years later, to live the rest of his life in the house that held a box of string too short to be saved.

Author : Donald Hall
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780618084739
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Here at Eagle Pond written by Donald Hall and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2000 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In these tender essays, Hall shares his memories and thoughts on growing up in New Hampshire on his grandparent's dairy farm, of the seasons, and of his connection to the land, his family, and his coming home.

Author : Donald Hall
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0544286944
Total Pages : 143 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Essays After Eighty written by Donald Hall and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2014-12-02 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The former U.S. Poet Laureate contemplates life, death, and the view from his window in these “alternately lyrical and laugh-out-loud funny” essays (The New York Times). From an early age, Donald Hall dedicated his life to the written word. In his long and celebrated career, he was an accomplished poet, essayist, memoirist, dramatist, and children’s author. Now, in the “unknown, unanticipated galaxy” of very old age, his essays continue to startle, move, and delight. In Essays After Eighty, Hall ruminates on his past: “thirty was terrifying, forty I never noticed because I was drunk, fifty was best with a total change of life, sixty extended the bliss of fifty . . .” He also addresses his present: “When I turned eighty and rubbed testosterone on my chest, my beard roared like a lion and gained four inches.” Most memorably, Hall writes about his enduring love affair with his ancestral Eagle Pond Farm and with the writing life that sustains him every day: “Yesterday my first nap was at 9:30 a.m., but when I awoke I wrote again.” “Deliciously readable…Donald Hall, if abandoned by the muse of poetry, has wrought his prose to a keen autumnal edge.” —The Wall Street Journal

Author : Karen Hesse
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0545517125
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Out of the Dust (Scholastic Gold) written by Karen Hesse and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acclaimed author Karen Hesse's Newbery Medal-winning novel-in-verse explores the life of fourteen-year-old Billie Jo growing up in the dust bowls of Oklahoma. Out of the Dust joins the Scholastic Gold line, which features award-winning and beloved novels. Includes exclusive bonus content!"Dust piles up like snow across the prairie. . . ."A terrible accident has transformed Billie Jo's life, scarring her inside and out. Her mother is gone. Her father can't talk about it. And the one thing that might make her feel better -- playing the piano -- is impossible with her wounded hands.To make matters worse, dust storms are devastating the family farm and all the farms nearby. While others flee from the dust bowl, Billie Jo is left to find peace in the bleak landscape of Oklahoma -- and in the surprising landscape of her own heart.

Author : Henry David Thoreau
Publisher : Applewood Books
ISBN 13 : 1557091307
Total Pages : 49 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wild Apples written by Henry David Thoreau and published by Applewood Books. This book was released on 1992 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A meditation on apples begins with a short history of the apple tree, tracing its path from ancient Greece to America. Thoreau saw the apple as a perfect mirror of man and eloquently lamented where they both were heading.

Author : Christina Georgina Rossetti
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.FX/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Goblin Market written by Christina Georgina Rossetti and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : G. K. Chesterton
Publisher : Aeterna Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ballad of the White Horse written by G. K. Chesterton and published by Aeterna Press. This book was released on 2015-04-20 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ballad of the White Horse is a poem by G. K. Chesterton about the idealized exploits of the Saxon King Alfred the Great. Written in ballad form, the work is usually considered one of the last great traditional epic poems ever written in the English language. The poem narrates how Alfred was able to defeat the invading Danes at the Battle of Ethandun under the auspices of God working through the agency of the Virgin Mary. In addition to being a narration of Alfred's military and political accomplishments, it is also considered a Catholic allegory. Chesterton incorporates a significant amount of philosophy into the basic structure of the story. Aeterna Press