Poetry and Ambition: Essays 1982--88 by Donald Hall.
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Donald Hall was born on September 20, 1928, and grew up in Hamden, Connecticut. He began writing as an adolescent and attended the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference at the age of sixteen—the same year he had his first work published. He earned a BA from Harvard University in Boston in 1951 and a.
In Donald Hall's compelling new collection of essays on the state of contemporary poetry, he likens much of what passes for poetry today to the product of an assembly line -- the McPoem. The McPoem may satisfy the desire for fame, the ambition for publication. But real ambition for the poet, says Hall, lies in the sometimes painful, always time.
Donald Hall 1928- (Full name Donald Andrew Hall, Jr.) American poet, essayist, memoirist, children's writer, short story writer, editor, playwright, and critic.
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Donald Hall’s career as an outstanding American poet culminated in the 2006 publication of a large selection of his poetry, “White Apples and the Taste of Stone.’’.
Essays after Eighty by Donald Hall is one of his last collections of writing. It's not all great, but I listened to it, and think that is the way to experience it, though I would have liked him doing it, in his voice.
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Other works by Donald Hall. Gold. by Donald Hall. Pale gold of the walls, gold of the centers of daisies, yellow pressing from a clear bowl. All da we lay on the bed, my hand stroking the deep. The Moon. by Donald Hall. A woman who lived in a tree caught the moon in a kettle. The wind on the roof of the tree thumped. 1; 3. Eating the Pig. by Donald Hall. Twelve people, most of us stranger.
Hall has published nearly 20 books of poetry, beginning with Exiles and Marriages in 1955. In 2015, he published The Selected Poems of Donald Hall (Houghton Mifflin), a volume of his essential life's work. Among his books for children, Ox-Cart Man won the Caldecott Medal.
Hall and Kenyon were interviewed at the house by Bill Moyers in an Emmy Award-winning PBS documentary, “Donald Hall and Jane Kenyon: A Life Together,” broadcast in 1993. In his 1983 essay, “Poetry and Ambition,” Hall wrote, “I see no reason to spend your life writing poems unless your goal is to write great poems.”.
But despite the strong poetry emerging today throughout the country, the forces of po biz continue to homogenize, commodify, institutionalize, professionalize, dehistoricize, and theorize poetry into a literary industry of low expectations in which fewer and fewer poets entertain high ambition, an observation Donald Hall made as far back as.
