Eagle Pond

Name: Eagle Pond
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ISBN: 9780618839346

ISBN-10: 0618839348

ISBN-13: 9780618839346

Edition: 2007

Authors: Donald Hall, Thomas W. Nason

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This original paperback brings together for the first time all of Donald Hall's writing on Eagle Pond Farm, his ancestral home in New Hampshire, where he visited his grandparents as a young boy and then lived with his wife, the poet Jane Kenyon, until her death. It includes the entire, previously published Seasons at Eagle Pond and Here at Eagle Pond; the poem "Daylilies on the Hill" from The Painted Bed; and several uncollected pieces. In these tender essays, Hall tells of the joys and quiddities of life on the farm, the pleasures and discomforts of a world in which the year has four seasons -- maple sugar, blackfly, Red Sox, and winter. Lyrical, comic, and elegaic, they sing of a…

Book details

List price: $18.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 4/4/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English

Donald Hall ranks among our foremost writers. He is the author of numerous books of verse & prose, including "Without," "The Museum of Clear Ideas," & "The Old Life."



Winter


Spring


Summer


Fall


Why we live here


Keeping things


Perennials


The fire that never went out


To walk a dog


Good use for bad weather


October's omens


A good foot of snow


Heman Chase's corners


Reasons for hating Vermont


The radio red sox, 1986


Living room politics, 1988


Rusticus


I [love] my dish


The rooster and the silo


Centuries of cousins


Country matters


My New England


Fifty people talking


Daylilies on the hill, 1975-1989


The darkened parlor


Graveyard people


Grandfathering


The company of cattle


The thriftiest state


Golden codgers


Various New Englands