Most Popular Books by Donald Hall

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.

One of America''s finest poets joins forces with one of baseball''s most outrageous pitchers to paint a revealing portrait of our national game. Donald Hall''s forceful, yet elegant, prose brings together all the elements of Dock Ellis''s story into a seamless whole. The two of them, the pitcher and the poet, give us remarkable insight into the customs and culture of this closed clannish world. Dock''s keen vision, filtered through Hall''s extraordinary voice, shows us the hardships and problems of the thinking athlete in an unthinking world.

In these tender essays, Hall shares his memories and thoughts on growing up in New Hampshire on his grandparent''s dairy farm, of the seasons, and of his connection to the land, his family, and his coming home.

Donald Hall believes that American poetry, at the present moment, thrives both in quality and in leadership. In his latest collection of essays, reviews, and interviews, Hall counters the increasingly publicized view that poetry has an ever-diminishing importance in contemporary American culture. He resents the endlessly repeated cliché that finds poetry unpopular and losing popularity. Thus: Death to the Death of Poetry. Throughout the pages of this latest offering in the Poets on Poetry series, Hall returns again and again to the theme of poetry''s health, and offers essays praising contemporary poets, who serve as examples of poetry''s thriving condition. In addition, Death to the Death of Poetry collects interviews in which Hall discusses the work of poetry--revisions, standards, the psychology and sociology of the poet''s life. The collection will be warmly received by Donald Hall''s large readership, enhanced in 1993 by publication of two exemplary volumes: The Museum of Clear Ideas, his eleventh book of poetry; and his essay Life Work, which brought him both new and returning readers.

A study of the life, character and art of one of America''s finest poets. Accounts for every phase of Marianne Moores''s life, the early sources of her unusual character, the quick recognition and encouragement of her work by Ezra Pound, her years as a young poet in Greenwich Village, her distinguished and controversial editorship of the "Dial", the most prestigious literary magazine of its day, her "retirement" to Brooklyn where she continued for decades consistently to produce some of the best poems written in our time.

In the fall of 1909, Lucy gets an early start on making Christmas presents for her family and friends, which they will open at the church''s Christmas program.

A young poet recalls his personal encounters with Robert Frost, Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, and Dylan Thomas and speaks of their private and literary concerns, especially in their later years.

Over 40 poems on nature, places, and people.

Rape is an increasingly serious social problem; the causes of which are poorly understood and preventative measures are, to date, ineffective. This book provides the reader with theory and research on rapists including adolescents, college students and criminals. Chapters discuss biological, psychological and social causes of rape and investigate recently developed clinical methods which provide hope for decreasing and preventing rape.; Whilst the empowerment of victims and potential victims of sexual aggression is critically important, there is no other type of aggressive sexual act in which the victim is so routinely blamed. This volume serves to shift the emphasis away from victim responsibility and so assist in the understanding, treatment and prevention of sexually active behaviour. lt provides a broad insight into family, cultural and evolutionary influences affecting rapists and details comprehensive Approaches To Treatment Which Take In Motivational Variables And Allow for follow up.

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

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

Explores the history of theories of selfhood, from the Classical era to the present, and demonstrates how those theories can be applied in literary and cultural criticism. Donald E. Hall: * examines all of the major methodologies and theoretical emphases of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, including psychoanalytic criticism, materialism, feminism and queer theory * applies the theories discussed in detailed readings of literary and cultural texts, from novels and poetry to film and the visual arts * offers a unique perspective on our current obsession with perfecting our selves * looks to the future of selfhood given the new identity possibilities arising out of developing technologies. Examining some of the most exciting issues confronting cultural critics and readers today, Subjectivity is the essential introduction to a fraught but crucial critical term and a challenge to the way we define our selves.

Lively, pointed, often polemical essays and interviews on the nature of creativity and the function of poetry

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

Donald Hall draws on his own childhood memories and gives himself the thing he most wanted but didn''t get as a boy: a Christmas at Eagle Pond. It’s the Christmas season of 1940, and twelve-year-old Donnie takes the train to visit his grandparents'' place in rural New Hampshire. Once there, he quickly settles into the farm’s routines. In the barn, Gramp milks the cows and entertains his grandson by speaking rhymed pieces, while Donnie’s eyes are drawn to an empty stall that houses a graceful, cobwebby sleigh. Now Model A''s speed over the wintry roads, which must be plowed, and the beautiful sleigh has become obsolete. When the church pageant is over, the gifts are exchanged, and the remains of the Christmas feast put away, the air becomes heavy with fine snowflakes—the kind that fall at the start of a big storm—and everyone wonders, how will Donnie get back to his parents on time?

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.

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.

"Corporal Politics documents an exhibition at the MIT List Visual Arts Center featuring the works of eight internationally recognized artists: Louise Bourgeois, Kiki Smith, Rona Pondick, Annette Messager, Robert Gober, David Wojnarowicz, Lilla LoCurto, and William Outcault. The work of these artists showcases a striking, recent artistic phenomenon: the disturbing isolation of body parts, internal organs, and bodily fluids to express the vulnerability of our bodies to physical violence, sexual oppression, and ultimate loss. From a sculpture of glass sperm to images confronting AIDS, the works of art represented here poignantly question ideals of coherent identity and an integrated self in our times."--Back cover.

Four-year-old Andrew visits a magical shop where he purchases seed to grow a lion.

The skill of a young riddler saves the day for the entire rat community.