The Selected Poems Of Donald Hall

Selected poems 1946 2006 was published the same year hall was named the 14th us poet laureate.

The selected poems of donald hall.

To write something as good as the poems that originally brought you to love the art. Hall says what he thinks in these poems. White apples and the taste of stone. From the enduring my son my executioner to names of horses to without donald hall s best poems deliver a banquet in the mouth charles simic and an aching elegance baltimore sun.

David hamilton writing for the iowa review noted that hall is a poet of fierce appetite and is fierce as a poet of appetite. The selected poems of donald hallreflects the poet s handpicked concise selection showcasing work rich with humor and eros and a kind of simplicity that succeeds in engaging the reader in the first few lines billy collins. Donald hall the selected poems of donald hall houghton mifflin harcourt 2015 160 pp. It s the only sensible reason for writing poems donald hall declared in his early sixties in a paris review interview he served as the magazine s first poetry editor in the 1950s.