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Unpacking the Boxes

A Memoir of a Life in Poetry

Unpacking the Boxes( )
Author: Hall, Donald
ISBN:978-0-618-99065-8
Publication Date:Sep 2008
Publisher:Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $24.00
Book Description:

Donald Hall’s remarkable life in poetry -- a career capped by his appointment as U.S. poet laureate in 2006 -- comes alive in this richly detailed, self-revealing memoir. Hall’s invaluable record of the making of a poet begins with his childhood in Depression-era suburban Connecticut, where he first realized poetry was "secret, dangerous, wicked, and delicious,” and ends with what he calls "the planet of antiquity,” a time of life dramatically...
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Book Details
Pages:208
Detailed Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / Literary Figures
Literary Criticism / Poetry
Language Arts & Disciplines / Writing / Authorship
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5.5 x 8.25 x 0.79 Inches
Book Weight:0.704 Pounds
Author Biography
Hall, Donald (Author)
Donald Andrew Hall Jr. was born in New Haven, Connecticut on September 20, 1928. He received a bachelor's degree from Harvard University in 1951. His first collection of poetry, Exiles and Marriages, was published in 1955. His other collections included Without, The Museum of Clear Ideas, and The Painted Bed. He received several awards including the National Book Critics Circle Award for The One Day, the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize for The Happy Man, the Poetry Society of America's Robert Frost Silver medal, and the Ruth Lilly Prize for poetry. He served as poetry editor of The Paris Review from 1953 to 1962 and was the United States poet laureate for 2006-2007.

He was also a memoirist, an essayist, and the author of textbooks and children's books. His memoirs were entitled Life Work and Unpacking the Boxes. His children's book, Ox-Cart Man illustrated by Barbara Cooney, won the Caldecott Medal. He received a National Medal of Arts in 2011. He died on June 23, 2018 at the age of 89.

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