The back chamber /

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hall, Donald, 1928-2018
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011.
Subjects:
POETRY / American / General.
American poetry > 21st century.
American poetry.
Poetry > 21st century.
Poetry.
Table of Contents:
  • I. Meatloaf. The things
  • Love's progress
  • Showtunes
  • Ruins
  • Conclusion at Union Lake
  • Three women
  • Nymph and shepherd
  • Bangers and mash
  • River
  • Meatloaf
  • The week
  • Convergences
  • Advent
  • Apples peaches
  • After the prom
  • Creative writing
  • The pursuit of poetry
  • Ric's progress.
  • III. Rocking Chairs Painted green. The number
  • Scar tissue
  • Sleep
  • Closing
  • What we did
  • Searching
  • The gardener
  • The offspring
  • Freezes and Junes
  • The widower's cowbell
  • Goosefeathers
  • the back chamber
  • Maples
  • The bone ring
  • Alterations
  • Pieces
  • Envy
  • "Poetry and ambition"
  • Green farmhouse chairs.