| Description |
xv, 431 pages ; 24 cm + 1 audio disc (digital, CD audio ; 4 3/4 in.) |
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digital optical rda |
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audio file CD audio rda |
| Contents |
Early Poems. Old home day -- Love is like sounds -- Wedding party -- Exile -- Exile (1968) -- Elegy for Wesley Wells -- My son my executioner -- The Sleeping giant -- Je Suis une Table -- Dancers -- By the Exeter River -- T.R. -- The Hole -- Religious articles -- The Foundations of American Industry -- Cops and robbers -- Sestina -- Waiting on the corners -- Marat's death -- The Kiss -- Between the clock and the bed -- Christ Church Meadows, Oxford -- Christmas Eve in Whitneyville -- Musk Ox. The Long River -- The Snow -- The Farm -- The Moon -- The Child -- The Poem -- Wells -- An Airstrip in England, 1960 -- New Hampshire -- Self-portrait as a bear -- Orange knee socks -- Sleeping -- King and queen -- Reclining figure -- Digging -- The Pilot of 1918 -- Letter to an English poet -- Stump -- In the kitchen of the old house -- Days -- Swan -- The Man in the dead machine -- I Am The Fox. The Alligator bride -- Sew -- The Coal fire -- The Blue wing -- Woolworth's -- The Repeated shapes -- Crewcuts -- Tall women -- The Table -- Mount Kearsarge -- The Young watch us -- Gold -- Waters -- Nose -- Stones -- The Dump -- The High pasture -- The Green shelf -- Adultery at forty -- To a waterfowl -- Fête -- Eleanor's letters -- The Raisin -- The Town of Hill -- White apples -- Root Cellar. Maple syrup -- The Toy bone -- O cheese -- Kicking the leaves -- Eating the pig -- Wolf knife -- On reaching the age of two hundred -- The Flies -- Ox cart man -- Stone walls -- Old roses -- Traffic -- Lady Ghost. The Black-faced sheep -- Names of horses -- Great day in the cows' house -- The Henyard round -- New animals -- Scenic view -- Old timers' day -- The Baseball players -- Granite and grass -- A Sister on the tracks -- A Sister by the pond -- The Day I was older -- For an exchange of rings -- The Impossible marriage -- Mr. Wakeville on Interstate 90 -- My friend Felix -- Merle Bascom's .22 -- Cider, 5 cents a glass -- Oliver at thirteen -- Edward's anecdote -- One Day. Shrubs burnt away -- Four classic texts -- To build a house -- Height And House Of Desire. Tubes -- Moon clock -- Carol -- Persistence of 1937 -- Six naps in one day -- Coffee cup -- This poem -- Praise for death -- Speeches -- The Night of the day -- Another elegy -- Baseball. The First inning -- The Second inning -- The Third inning -- The Fourth inning -- The Fifth inning -- The Sixth inning -- The Seventh inning -- The Eighth inning -- The Ninth inning -- The Museum Of Clear Ideas. Decius, whose guileful -- We've come to expect -- Let engine cowling -- Winter's asperity mollifies -- Who's this fellow -- I'm not up to it -- Let many bad poets -- In the name of -- Mount Kearsarge shines -- Camilla, never ask -- The Times are propitious -- Drusilla informs -- Ship of State, Hightide -- When the young husband -- Old woman whom I -- When the fine days -- When I was young -- Flaccus, drive up -- Let us meditate the virtue -- We explore grief's -- I suppose you've noticed -- Sabina, who explored -- Go write a poem -- Nunc est bibendum -- I, too, dislike -- Extra Innings. The Tenth inning -- The Eleventh inning -- The Twelfth inning -- The Thirteenth inning -- The Old Life. Spring Glen Grammar School -- The Hard man -- Venetian nights -- Blue -- My Aunt Liz -- Screenplay -- The Profession -- Edit -- The Girlfriend -- The Giant broom -- Mr. Eliot -- Le jazz -- Just married -- Dread -- The Fragments -- Fame -- Forty years -- What counts -- Moon shot -- Seven and one half -- Elbows -- The Wedding couple -- Rain -- Beans and franks -- Revisions -- Routine -- All. Her long illness -- Barber -- The Porcelain couple -- The Ship pounding -- Folding chair -- Her intent -- Without -- After life -- Retriever -- The Painted bed -- Letters Without Addresses. Letter with no address -- Midsummer letter -- Letter in autumn -- Letter at Christmas -- Letter in the New Year -- Midwinter letter -- Letter after a year -- Throwing Away. Weeds and peonies -- After Homer -- Her garden -- Summer kitchen -- Wool squares -- Pond afternoons -- Hours hours -- The Wish -- Another Christmas -- Sweater -- Distressed haiku -- Throwing the things away -- The Perfect life -- Deathwork -- Ardor -- Kill the day -- Razor -- Conversation's afterplay -- Charity and dominion -- Sun -- Villanelle -- Love poem -- Affirmation -- Recent Poems. Secrets -- The Angels -- The Master -- Surveyor and surface -- North south -- The Mysteries -- Olives -- After Horace -- Tea -- Safe sex -- Tennis ball -- 1943 -- Usage -- White clapboard -- Witness's house -- Gospel -- We bring democracy to the fish -- Fishing for cats, 1944 -- The hunkering. |
| Summary |
A collection of more than two hundred poems by award-winning poet Donald Hall, with an audio CD featuring Hall reading many of the poems featured in the book. |
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American poetry -- 19th century.
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American poetry -- 20th century.
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American poetry. (OCoLC)fst00807348
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| Chronological Term |
1800-1999
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| Genre/Form |
Poetry.
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Poetry. (OCoLC)fst01423828
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Hall, Donald, 1928- White apples and the taste of stone. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 2006 (OCoLC)607767056 |
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Online version: Hall, Donald, 1928- White apples and the taste of stone. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 2006 (OCoLC)609095285 |
| ISBN |
9780618537211 |
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061853721X |
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