the Library of Congress announced, today, that Donald Hall will be the 14th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress.
i guess my next order of business is reading up on this Hall fella.
:: live . work . sleep . drink . write ::
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madness to go thru all that cancer and struggle and fight and pain and then have your wife die so unpleasantly is badge of honor enough to me, even having read none of his work. I will be reading his book Without you can bet. it is one of the biggest walls I (and everyone) will face: the passing of their best friend.
hell, and dying in general. this is the reason for the poem.
simple.
this is true, bro....i'll admit i knew nothing of him, but when i read his bio and about how he lost his wife and wrote about it, i earmarked that book for me.
you and i are very similar in our regard towards life and death. i DESPERATELY hope i die before my wife because i seriously don't think i can take the loss. how's this for crazy? i'd much rather lose MY life than hers.
anyway, he's certainly paid his dues and i've no gripe with his nomination. i just wonder who'll be Poet Laureate when we're in our 70s (assuming we make it that far)?
Half my books are packed away, waiting to move to North Carolina but I have a very old book, the title is something like reflections on a gift of watermelon pickels...something like that. From when I was in elementary school. And in that book was a poem by him. But I can't find it. If I remember, when I move, I'll look for it and send it to you guys.
Has there ever been a female Poet Laureate? Just curious. . .
there has. a few.
check out this link to the wikipedia page about it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poet_Laureate_Consultant_in_Poetry_to_the_Library_of_Congress
was his wife Jane Kenyon,
had some good poems in her
own right.
yes, Luis, his wife was Jane Kenyon. i'll be checking her out as well.
I have an old book on the shelf called Writing Well. It's like a textbook, which was edited by Hall,
on writing.
how is it? any good?
Not bad. It's a College Textbook from 1979. The back cover has a picture of Hall, had dark hair then and a dark beard. The photograph is credited to Jane Kenyon. It says in the back cover, Of all his books, the most popular is Writing Well. It notes, Hall sees no contradiction when a poet writes a composition textbook. "The poet and the composition teacher," he says, "both try to 'purify the language of the tribe.'"
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