Old Poets: Reminiscences and Opinions Hall Donald
Old Poets: Reminiscences and Opinions Hall Donald "Old Poets is an indispensable jewel." --Washington Post "An astonishing array of encounters...Hall's observations are shrewd and generous." --Boston…
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Old Poets: Reminiscences and Opinions Hall Donald
"Old Poets is an indispensable jewel." --Washington Post "An astonishing array of encounters...Hall's observations are shrewd and generous." --Boston GlobeIntimate portraits of great poets in old age, giving new insight into their work and their lives, and context to the often flawless art created by flawed human beings. Each of those things come together in this unique collection. The best of themselves endure, and the old poets' existence and endurance gives readers courage to pursue their own vision.Donald Hall (Essays After Eighty and A Carnival of Losses: Notes Nearing Ninety) knew a great deal about work, about poetry, and about age.
But, as Hall writes, "The poet who survives is the poet to celebrate; the human We hear about Robert Frost as Hall knew him: vain and cruel, a man possessed by guilt.
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