Nice portrayal of a farmers life in the 19th Century. How the Farmer loads up his cart to products his family works on over the year. It shows many different uses for what a farmer might have access to. Such as mittens made from sheep wool. A great book to introduce your child to a good history ...
Hall's poetry is sparse and avoids delving into unnecessary prose and descriptions. Instead, his words focus on the blunt instrument of emotion. He has a gift for making the reader feel a kinship, even if s/he hasn't gone through the exact experience Hall is describing. There were many favorites ...
A lovely novella of the innocence before WWII in a New England farm. Donnie spends several days leading up to and including Christmas at his grandparents milk farm in New Hampshire while his mother recuperates from surgery in Connecticut. Full of great details on how farms ran and a way of life has ...
A lovely novella of the innocence before WWII in a New England farm. Donnie spends several days leading up to and including Christmas at his grandparents milk farm in New Hampshire while his mother recuperates from surgery in Connecticut. Full of great details on how farms ran and a way of life has ...
I've read this dozens or millions of times. I'm thinking of it now because of a discussion thread about picture books that take place on the farm. This one gives a stunning impression of farm life in New England in the early nineteenth century. It is a great book for contrasting the present and the ...
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...
I remember this book very fondly from my own childhood and was curious to see how it held up. The verdict is....very well! The story is one that emphasizes an appreciation and awareness of nature's abundance and reinforces concepts self-reliance and community. The text is simple but rhythmic and ...
This was a bedside book that I wound up reading elsewhere. Donald Hall is a poet who also loves baseball. The book is a compendium of baseball and some other sports essays written between, I believe, 1974 and 1982. The major piece here, the title work, tells of Hall’s spring training with the Pittsb...
This is beautiful poetry but Farrar, Strauss and Giroux went real low-budgie on the book. Some smarter publisher should put together a better printing, better paper, clearer font, etc. What a bummer.
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