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Author of more than thirty books of poetry and prose, Donald Hall performs here dozens of his best-loved poems, together with excerpts from six of his works of prose. Donald Hall has been writing poems for over fifty years and now stands as one of America's foremost poets. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Robert Frost Medal of the Poetry Society of America, the New England Book Award for nonfiction, and former Poet Laureate of New Hampshire among other honors, Donald Hall gives each listener this gift of words—words painstakingly entwined with passion, energy and love. Prose & Poetry is a tour de force—an intimate convergence of poet, author, and listener.
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“Donald
Hall’s own voice speaks so directly from the heart that no polished
narration could be as moving as he is. Let the poet speak.”
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About Donald Hall
Donald Hall is an
American author and literary critic. A graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy,
Harvard, and Oxford, he is the author of over numerous books and collections of poetry, including Caldecott Medal winner Ox-Cart Man, White Apples and the Taste of Stone, and New Poets of England and America. He served
as the 2006–2007 US Poet Laureate and has won numerous awards for his
contributions to literature, including the 1990 Robert Frost Medal, the Ruth
Lilly Poetry Prize for his lifetime achievement, and the 2010 National Medal of
Arts.