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26 mar 2018 · Kicking the leaves : poems : Hall, Donald, 1928- : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive. by. Hall, Donald, 1928- Publication date. 1978. Topics. Poetry, Poetry. Publisher. New York : Harper & Row. Collection. internetarchivebooks; inlibrary; printdisabled. Contributor. Internet Archive. Language. English.
Kicking the leaves, October, as we walk home together from the game, in Ann Arbor, on a day the color of soot, rain in the air; I kick at the leaves of maples, reds of seventy different shades, yellow like old paper; and poplar leaves, fragile and pale; and elm leaves, flags of a doomed race.
1. Kicking the leaves, October, as we walk home together. from the game, in Ann Arbor, on a day the color of soot, rain in the air; I kick at the leaves of maples, reds of seventy different...
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Donald Hall was considered one of the major American poets of his generation. His poetry explores the longing for a more bucolic past and reflects the poets abiding reverence for nature. Although Hall gained early success with his first collection, Exiles and Marriages (1955), his later poetry is generally regarded as the best of his career. Often ...
Born in 1928, Hall grew up in Hamden, Connecticut. The Hall household was marked by a volatile father and a mother who was steadier, maybe with more access to depths because there was less continual surface, as Hall explained in an essay for Contemporary Authors Autobiography Series (CAAS). To her I owe my fires, to my father my tears. I owe them b...
Hall attended Philips Exeter Academy and had his first poem published at age 16. He was a participant at the prestigious Bread Loaf Writers Conference, where he met Robert Frost, that same year. From Exeter, Hall went to Harvard University, attending class alongside Adrienne Rich, Robert Bly, Frank OHara, and John Ashbery; he also studied for a yea...
In 1989, Hall was diagnosed with colon cancer. Though his chances for survival were slim, he eventually went into remission. In 1994, his wife Jane Kenyon was diagnosed with leukemia and died 15 months later. Kenyons death had a profound effect on him and he documented his loss in both his poetry and prose. The poems in Without: Poems (1998) were w...
In addition to his accomplishments as a poet, Hall was a respected as an academic who, through writing, teaching, and lecturing, has made significant contributions to the study and craft of writing. As Liam Rector has explained, Hall has lived deeply within the New England ethos of plain living and high thinking, and he has done so with a sense of ...
Hall continued to live and work on his New Hampshire farm, a site that serves as both his home and an inspiration for much of his work, until his death in June 2018. In addition to the poet laureate position, Hall was awarded many honors, including two Guggenheim fellowships, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for poetry, and the Ruth Lilly Poetry Pr...
1 gen 1979 · Kicking the Leaves. Donald Hall. 4.14. 51 ratings11 reviews. In 1975, in the middle of his life, Donald Hall left Ann Arbor, where he had taught for many years at the University of Michigan, left university teaching entirely, and moved to a New Hampshire farm to spend all his time writing.
17 ott 1975 · I kick at the leaves of maples, reds of seventy different shades, yellow. like old paper; and poplar leaves, fragile and pale; and elm leaves, flags of a doomed race.
1 ago 1978 · Kicking the Leaves: Poems. Paperback – August 1, 1978. A collection of work by the much admired poet Donald Hall. Contains "Kicking the Leaves" and "Names of Horses". Hall's poems have been published in The New York Times, The New Yorker, and American Poetry Review.
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