Ebook {Epub PDF} The Back Chamber by Donald Hall

 · In The Back Chamber, Donald Hall illuminates the evocative, iconic objects of deep memory—a cowbell, a white stone perfectly round, a three-legged milking stool—that serve to foreground the rich meditations on time and mortality that run through his remarkable new collection. While Hall’s devoted readers will recognize many of his long-standing preoccupations—baseball, the . In The Back Chamber, Donald Hall illuminates the evocative, iconic objects of deep memory—a cowbell, a white stone perfectly round, a three-legged milking stool—that serve to foreground the rich meditations on time and mortality that run through this remarkable collection. While Hall’s devoted readers will recognize many of his long-standing preoccupations—baseball, the family farm, love, sex, Brand: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. In The Back Chamber, Donald Hall illuminates the evocative, iconic objects of deep memory—a cowbell, a white stone perfectly round, a three-legged milking stool—that serve to foreground the rich meditations on time and mortality that run through this remarkable collection. While Hall's devoted readers will recognize many of his long-standing preoccupations—baseball, the family farm, love, sex, .

The Back Chamber has unexpected insights, charms, droll observations, self-mockery, and well-earned wisdom. Hall is a serious writer, yes, but he has learned not to take himself too seriously—a view many a younger artist might embrace. Donald Hall published his final book of new poems, "The Back Chamber," in A book of his essays will be published in He may be reached via e-mail. Illustration by Victor Kerlow. The Old Life. by. Donald Hall. · Rating details · 52 ratings · 7 reviews. For nearly forty years, Donald Hall has stood in the front rank of American poets. The title poem, an autobiographical sequence, takes Hall from his boyhood to his growing acquaintance with poets--seniors like Robert Frost and contemporaries like Robert Bly.

In The Back Chamber, Donald Hall illuminates the evocative, iconic objects of deep memory a cowbell, a white stone perfectly round, a three-legged milking stool that serve to foreground the rich meditations on time and mortality that run through his remarkable new collection. While Hall s devoted readers will recognize many of his long-standing. In The Back Chamber, Donald Hall illuminates the evocative, iconic objects of deep memory—a cowbell, a white stone perfectly round, a three-legged milking stool—that serve to foreground the rich meditations on time and mortality that run through his remarkable new collection. While Hall’s devoted readers will recognize many of his long-standing preoccupations—baseball, the family farm, love, sex, and friendship—what will strike them as new is the fierce, pitiless poignancy he. The Back Chamber. by. Donald Hall. · Rating details · ratings · 34 reviews. The first full-length volume of poems in a decade by former poet laureate of the United States Donald Hall. In The Back Chamber, Donald Hall illuminates the evocative, iconic objects of deep memory—"a cowbell," "a white stone perfectly round," "a three-legged milking stool"—that serve to foreground the rich meditations on time and mortality that run through his remarkable ne.