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The Back Chamber

The first full-length volume of poems in a decade by former poet laureate of the United States Donald Hall

In The Back Chamber, Donald Hall illuminates the evocative, iconic objects of deep memory — "a cowbell," "a white stone perfectly round," "a three-legged milking stool" — that serve to foreground the rich meditations on time and mortality that run through his remarkable new collection. While Hall’s devoted readers will recognize many of his long-standing preoccupations — baseball, the family farm, love, sex, and friendship — what will strike them as new is the fierce, pitiless poignancy he reveals as his own life’s end comes into view. The Back Chamber is far from being death-haunted but rather is lively, irreverent, sexy, hilarious, ironic, and sly — full of the life-affirming energy that has made Donald Hall one of America’s most popular and enduring poets.

  • Format
  • hardcover
  • Pages
  • 96
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780547645858
  • Genres
  • poetry
  • Release date
  • 2011