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The Back Chamber

By Hall , Donald

Book information

Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Year
2012
ISBN
9780547645858
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
637 kB (652656 bytes)
Edition
Uncorr. proof
Pages
83 pages ; 21 cm\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
American poetry

Description

The first full-length volume of poems in a decade by the former poet laureate of the United States 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 reveals as his own life's end comes into view. The Back Chamber is far from being death-haunted, but rather is lively, irreverent, erotic, hilarious, ironic, and sly—full of the life-affirming energy that has made Donald Hall one of America's most popular and enduring poets.

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