New Releases by Donald Hall

A boy meets the young Babe Ruth and along with his family follows the Babe''s long and illustrious career.

The story of the growth of a New Hampshire village from pre-history to the bicentennial celebration of its founding.

For Lucy Wells, who lives on a farm in New Hampshire, the summer of 1910 is filled with helping her mother can fruits and vegetables, enjoying the Fourth of July celebration, and other activities.

Distinguished poet Donald Hall and award-winning artist Barry Moser have teamed up to create a hilarious, affectionate portrait in contrasts of our companions, and often best friends, a cat and a dog. With evocative words and masterful paintings, they delineate the doginess and catlike qualities that everyone will recognize.

“With The One Day, this is his best work, a modest, skeptical, and brave poetry that embodies something essential about this late American century.” —Harvard Review This is Donald Hall’s most advanced work, extending his poetic reach even beyond his recent volumes. Conflict dominates this book, and conflict unites it. Hall takes poetry as an instrument for revelation, whether in an elegy for a (fictional) contemporary poet, or in the title series of poems, whose form imitates the first book of the Odes of Horace. The book’s final section, “Extra Innings,” moves with poignancy to questions about the end of the game. “A stunning volume of testamentary verse . . . an often perfect American blend of rue and buoyancy, narrative verve and grace.” —The New Yorker “Donald Hall is our finest elegist. The Museum of Clear Ideas is as original, idiosyncratic, and un-museumlike a poetic work as we are likely to see for a long time to come.” —Richard Tillinghast, The New Criterion “Hall’s poems make ‘durable relics’ of late twentieth-century life in much the same way that Byron’s Don Juan does for the early nineteenth. The ‘clear ideas,’ however, are timeless.” —Beloit Poetry Journal “These are some of the darkest lines Donald Hall has ever composed. They move through aching poignancy through illness diagnosed, sorrow, and poignant revelation, yet the final chord is not one of despair.” —Robert Taylor, Boston Globe “A collection of powerful new poems . . . Hall’s voice is more mature and classically spare than ever, offering revelatory glimpses of wisdom.” —Publishers Weekly “A brilliantly inventive tour de force . . . A significant and engaging book.” —Library Journal

A young boy spends the summer on his grandparents'' farm in New Hampshire while his mother works in the war effort in New York and his father serves on a destroyer in the Pacific.

Author relates how his life is modeled on his family''s lives of work, solitude, love, and devotion to craft.

Donald Hall has written a vivid memoir of the eminent poets of our century. While still a student, Donald Hall came to know Robert Frost, Dylan Thomas, and T. S. Eliot. He interviewed Eliot, Ezra Pound, and Marianne Moore for The Paris Review, and his portraits, anecdotes, descriptions, criticisms, and literary gossip, drawn from life

Gathers poems from each period of Hall''s career, including "The One Day," the long poem that won the National Book Critics Circle Award.

From the author of The Oxford Book of American Literary Anecdotes comes a fascinating collection of ribald, sad, and touching stories about the artists of the modern era. Includes nearly 800 anecdotes covering almost 200 artists--from Rousseau to Picasso to Warhol--and offers a unique glimpse into the private lives of many of the world''s best-known artists.

In a long poem, the narrator looks back on his childhood and shares his attitudes toward the past

A compelling collection of essays on the state of contemporary poetry

A man who had been unhappy as a child finds after he has grown up that he is happy living alone in his cabin in the New England woods.

A collection of essays by contemporary American poets on the subject of their art

Part of the series Poets on Poetry, this volume contains a collection of essays, reviews, articles, profiles, notes and one interview. These selections, all written within the last five years, are mostly quite short, but inform beyond the artist or work under review. Hall''s interests range from poetry as a spoken art to the commas strangely inserted by the editor of Robert Frost''s Collected Poems and to how difficult it is to judge "the contemporary." ISBN 0-472-06340-5 : $6.95.