The Old Life - by Donald Hall (Paperback)

About the Book

For nearly 40 years, through changes of fashion and form, Donald Hall has stodd in the front rank of American poets. These four autobiographical poems take Hall from his boyhood in New Haven to his education at Exeter and Harvard to his growing acquaintance with poets like Robert Frost and Robert Bly. Through happiness and sorrow, Hall does not fail to tell the truth about himself and the challenges of this time on earth.

Book Synopsis

For nearly forty years, Donald Hall has stood in the front rank of American poets. The title poem, an autobiographical sequence, takes Hall from his boyhood to his growing acquaintance with poets--seniors like Robert Frost and contemporaries like Robert Bly. It sees him growing into manhood, fatherhood, grandfatherhood, and a happy second marriage. When his life inevitably moves into vicissitude, even tragedy, he will tell the dreadful truth about himself and the challenges of his time on earth.