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Donald Hall (1928 - / Connecticut / United States)
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Hall was born in Hamden, Connecticut, the only child of Donald Andrew Hall, a businessman, and Lucy Wells. He was educated at Phillips Exeter Academy, .. more >>
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2      Affirmation
3      An old life
4      Christmas party at the South Danbury Church
5      Distressed Haiku
6      Je Suis une table
7      Mount Kearsarge Shines
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  Donald Hall - Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios & More
Donald Hall was born in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1928. He began writing as an adolescent and attended the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference at the age of ...
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  Donald Hall - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Donald Hall (born 20 September 1928) is an American poet. He was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (commonly known as ...
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  Donald Hall : The Poetry Foundation
Donald Hall Considered one of the major American poets of his generation, Donald Hall's works explore a longing for the more bucolic past and reflect the ...
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poet.html?id=2853


  Life at Eagle Pond: The Poetry of Jane Kenyon and Donald Hall ...
Includes photos, selected poems, drafts of the children's book "Ox-Cart Man," and an account of an event in memory of Kenyon after her death from leukemia.
http://www.library.unh.edu/special/index.php/exhibits/jane-kenyon-and-donald-hall


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  "In football they measure forty-yard sprints. Nobody runs forty yards in basketball. Maybe you run the ninety-four feet of the court; then you stop, not on a dime, but on Miss Liberty's torch. In football you run over somebody's face."
Donald Hall (b. 1928), U.S. poet, essayist. "Basketball: The Purest Sport of Bodies," Fathers Playing Catch with Sons: Essays on Sport, North Point Press (1985).
 
  "Sweet death, small son, our instrument
Of immortality,
Your cries and hungers document
Our bodily decay."
Donald Hall (b. 1928), U.S. poet. My Son, My Executioner (l. 5-8). . . Contemporary American Poetry. A. Poulin, Jr., ed. (4th ed., 1985) Houghton Mifflin Company.

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