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Essays After Eighty
ISBN: 9780544570313 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "Alternately lyrical and laugh-out-loud funny."--New York Times
"Deliciously readable . . . Donald Hall, if abandoned by the muse of poetry, has wrought his prose to a keen autumnal edge." -- Wall Street Journal His entire life, Donald Hall has dedicated himself to the written word, putting together a storied career as a poet, essayist, and memoirist. Now, in the "unknown, unanticipated galaxy" of very old age, he is writing essays that startle, move, and delight. In Essays After Eighty, Hall ruminates on his past: "thirty was terrifying,... "Alternately lyrical and laugh-out-loud funny."--New York Times
"Deliciously readable . . . Donald Hall, if abandoned by the mus... |
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69,16 zł |
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The Oxford Illustrated Book of American Children's Poems
ISBN: 9780195145786 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. American children's poetry began with Native American cradle songs, moved on to a rhymed alphabet, blossomed in the 19th century with "A Visit from St. Nicholas," expanded widely in the 20th century, and continues with vigor into the new millennium. Some of the best of these poems, however, have been neglected or forgotten. This collection, edited by acclaimed children's author and poet Donald Hall, returns the forgotten treasures of American children's poetry. Featuring some of the best of children's book illustration-including archival selections from rare and early editions and...
American children's poetry began with Native American cradle songs, moved on to a rhymed alphabet, blossomed in the 19th century with "A Visit from St...
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65,01 zł |
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Principal Products of Portugal
ISBN: 9780807062036 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This is Hall at large, ruminating on the subjects that never fail to move him: baseball, poetry, poets, reading, the rough terrain of home. -The New YorkerA vibrant testament to the substance of a writer's experience.-The Boston Globe.
This is Hall at large, ruminating on the subjects that never fail to move him: baseball, poetry, poets, reading, the rough terrain of home. -The New Y...
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99,74 zł |
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The Best Day the Worst Day: Life with Jane Kenyon
ISBN: 9780618773626 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A candid memoir of love, art, and grief from a celebrated man of letters, United States poet laureate Donald Hall
In an intimate record of his twenty-three-year marriage to poet Jane Kenyon, Donald Hall recounts the rich pleasures and the unforeseen trials of their shared life. The couple made a home at their New England farmhouse, where they rejoiced in rituals of writing, gardening, caring for pets, and connecting with their rural community through friends and church. The Best Day the Worst Day presents a portrait of the inner moods of the best marriage I know about, as Hall has... A candid memoir of love, art, and grief from a celebrated man of letters, United States poet laureate Donald Hall
In an intimate record of his twe... |
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76,39 zł |
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Unpacking the Boxes: A Memoir of a Life in Poetry
ISBN: 9780547247946 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Donald Hall's invaluable record of the making of a poet begins with his childhood in Depression-era suburban Connecticut, where as the doted-upon son of dramatically thwarted parents he first realized poetry was "secret, dangerous, wicked, and delicious." Hall eloquently writes of the poetry and books that moved and formed him as a child and young man, and of adolescent efforts at poetry writingan endeavor he wryly describes as more hormonal than artistic. His painful, formative days at Exeter are followed by a poetic self-liberation of sorts at Harvard andin the post-war university scene... Donald Hall's invaluable record of the making of a poet begins with his childhood in Depression-era suburban Connecticut, where as the doted-upon s... |
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73,72 zł |
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Fathers Playing Catch with Sons: Essays on Sport (Mostly Baseball)
ISBN: 9780865471689 / Angielski / Miękka / 1984 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In the pantheon of great sports literature, not a few poets have tried their hand at paying tribute to their love affair with the game -- Walt Whitman, Marianne Moore, and William Carlos Williams among them. This elegant volume collects Donald Hall's prose about sports, concentrating on baseball but extending to basketball, football and Ping-Pong. The essays are a wonderful mixture of reminiscence and observation, of baseball and of fathers and sons, of how a game binds people together and bridges generations.
In the pantheon of great sports literature, not a few poets have tried their hand at paying tribute to their love affair with the game -- Walt Whit... |
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73,72 zł |
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The Oxford Book of Children's Verse in America
ISBN: 9780195067613 / Angielski / Miękka / 1990 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Compiled by the award-winning poet and author of children's books, Donald Hall, this delightful anthology follows in the tradition of Iona and Peter Opie's classic Oxford Book of Children's Verse. Hall brings together poems written specifically for children and also those written for anyone and enjoyed by children and adults alike. He presents over two hundred fifty poems written by over one hundred different American poets--including anonymous works, ballads, and recitation pieces--that range from the Calvinist verses of the seventeenth century to the fabulous nonsense poems of the...
Compiled by the award-winning poet and author of children's books, Donald Hall, this delightful anthology follows in the tradition of Iona and Peter O...
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94,70 zł |
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Willow Temple: New & Selected Stories
ISBN: 9780618446612 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A contemplative selection of twelve short stories from the celebrated author Donald Hall, Willow Temple focuses on the effects of divorce, adultery, and neglect. Hall's stories are reminiscent of those of Alice Munro and William Maxwell in their mastery of form and their ability to trace the emotional fault lines connecting generations. "From Willow Temple" is the indelible story of a child's witness of her mother's adultery and the loss that underlies it. Three stories present David Bardo at crucial junctures of his life, beginning as a child drawn to his parents' "cozy adult coven of...
A contemplative selection of twelve short stories from the celebrated author Donald Hall, Willow Temple focuses on the effects of divorce, adultery, a...
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69,38 zł |
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A Carnival of Losses: Notes Nearing Ninety
ISBN: 9780358056140 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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69,34 zł |
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Here at Eagle Pond
ISBN: 9780618084739 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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69,38 zł |
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The Oxford Book of Children's Verse in America
ISBN: 9780195035391 / Angielski / Twarda / 1985 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In the tradition of Iona and Peter Opie's Oxford Book of Children's Verse comes this anthology by the award-winning poet and children's book author Donald Hall. Bringing together "poems written for children and also poems written for anybody which children have enjoyed," the book includes anonymous works, ballads, and recitation pieces, beginning with the Calvinist verses of the seventeenth century.
Hall has collected poems from Sunday School magazines, Christmas annuals for children, and children's periodicals such as St. Nicholas and Youth's Companion. Many marvelous writers, some no... In the tradition of Iona and Peter Opie's Oxford Book of Children's Verse comes this anthology by the award-winning poet and children's book author Do...
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185,61 zł |
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Old and New Poems
ISBN: 9780899199542 / Angielski / Miękka / 1990 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This volume collects between two covers the finest work of Donald Hall, who over a long and distinguished career has given himself to the profession of poetry in every form. Winner of the 1989 National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Poetry.
This volume collects between two covers the finest work of Donald Hall, who over a long and distinguished career has given himself to the profession o...
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78,06 zł |
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Old Poets: Reminiscences and Opinions
ISBN: 9781567926958 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. |
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101,31 zł |
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The Painted Bed
ISBN: 9780618340750 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. By turns furious and resigned, spirited and despairing, Hall's masterly follow-up to Without reexamines his grief over the death of his wife, the poet Jane Kenyon, and considers the life he has made since.
By turns furious and resigned, spirited and despairing, Hall's masterly follow-up to Without reexamines his grief over the death of his wife, the poet...
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69,38 zł |
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The Life and Times of Helon Henry Tracy, Mormon Polygamist: A True Story Of The Practice Of Polygamy With Its Divine Purpose Being To Raise Up A Right
ISBN: 9781439208465 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 526 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The Mormon people were severely persecuted in the early years of their existence and this persecution was magnified when they started practicing polygamy which they ceased to practice in 1890. Their earlier practice sent many of them to prison, including the author's grandfather, because of the public clamor such as the following: "Mormonism, as a system professing to bless society, is a vile delusion." "Mormonism, as a system professing to advance civilization and education, is a failure." Is Mormonism really a vile delusion? Doesn't every church claim to be the true church? The Church of...
The Mormon people were severely persecuted in the early years of their existence and this persecution was magnified when they started practicing polyg...
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90,97 zł |
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The Museum of Clear Ideas
ISBN: 9780395680858 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This is Donald Hall's most advanced work, extending his poetic reach even beyond his recent volumes The One Day and Old and New Poems.
This is Donald Hall's most advanced work, extending his poetic reach even beyond his recent volumes The One Day and Old and New Poems.
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69,38 zł |
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The One Day
ISBN: 9780899198163 / Angielski / Miękka / 1988 / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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69,38 zł |
![White Apples and the Taste of Stone: Selected Poems 1946-2006 [With CD of Poems] Hall, Donald 9780618919994](/9780618919994_white_apples_and_the_taste_of_stone_selected_poems_1946_2006_with_cd_of_poems.jpg "White Apples and the Taste of Stone: Selected Poems 1946-2006 [With CD of Poems]") |
White Apples and the Taste of Stone: Selected Poems 1946-2006 [With CD of Poems]
ISBN: 9780618919994 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Throughout his career, Hall has garnered numerous accolades and honors, culminating in 2006 with his appointment as poet laureate of the U.S. This work collects more than 200 poems from Halls celebrated career.
Throughout his career, Hall has garnered numerous accolades and honors, culminating in 2006 with his appointment as poet laureate of the U.S. This wor...
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104,08 zł |
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Death to the Death of Poetry: Essays, Reviews, Notes, Interviews
ISBN: 9780472065714 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A spirited defense of the vitality of contemporary poetry.
A spirited defense of the vitality of contemporary poetry.
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98,01 zł |
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The Breath of Parted Lips: Voices from the Robert Frost Place, Volume 1
ISBN: 9780967885629 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 387 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. A collection of 130 poems contributed by Frost Place residents, many of whom have risen to prominence. Some contributors' poems were written during their tenures on the farm. Such poets as Robert Hass, Gary Miranda, Mary Jo Salter, Cleopatra Mathis, Denis Johnson and Stanley Plumly explore the depth and breadth of their time spent in Frost's New Hampshire. Eminent poet Donald Hall wrote the foreword and includes a cache of Frost's poems from Mountain Interval.
A collection of 130 poems contributed by Frost Place residents, many of whom have risen to prominence. Some contributors' poems were written during th...
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125,58 zł |
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