Without: Poems
Donald Hall's poignant and courageous poetry speaks of the death of the magnificent, humorous, and gifted Jane Kenyon. Hall speaks to us all of grief, as a poet lamenting the death of a poet, as a husband mourning the loss of a wife. Without is Hall's greatest and most honorable achievement-his...
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Donald Hall's poignant and courageous poetry speaks of the death of the magnificent, humorous, and gifted Jane Kenyon. Hall speaks to us all of grief, as a poet lamenting the death of a poet, as a husband mourning the loss of a wife. Without is Hall's greatest and most honorable achievement-his gift and testimony, his lament and his celebration of loss and of love.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780395957653 (0395957656)
Publish date: April 14th 1999
Publisher: Mariner Books
Pages no: 96
Edition language: English
Heavy, but sooo good. A series of poems written while his wife, Jane Kenyon, was dying, and then a series of poems that are letters to her, written throughout the year after her death. "...The year of days / without you and your body swept by / as quick as an afternoon; / but each afternoon took a y...
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