White Apples and the Taste of Stone Selected Poems 1946-2006

Name: White Apples and the Taste of Stone Selected Poems 1946-2006
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ISBN: 9780618537211

ISBN-10: 061853721X

ISBN-13: 9780618537211

Edition: 2006

Authors: Donald Hall

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White Apples and the Taste of Stone collects 226 poems from across sixty years of Donald Hall"s celebrated career, including new poems that recently appeared in The New Yorker. One of the most acclaimed poets of his generation, Hall has earned numerous accolades and honors, including the Frost Medal from the Poetry Society of America, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the Ruth Lilly Prize. Much anticipated, White Apples and the Taste of Stone is Hall"s first volume of selected works in fifteen years and the first to include poems from his seminal bestseller, Without. A specially recorded CD of Donald Hall reading his favorite poems is included in…

Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
Publication date: 4/3/2006
Binding: Mixed Media
Pages: 448
Size: 7.00" wide x 9.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.628
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."




Early Poems


Old Home Day


Love Is Like Sounds


Wedding Party


Exile


Exile (1968)


Elegy for Wesley Wells


My Son My Executioner


The Sleeping Giant


Je Suis une Table


Dancers


By the Exeter River


T.R.


The Hole


Religious Articles


The Foundations of American Industry


Cops and Robbers


Sestina


Waiting on the Corners


"Marat's Death"


"The Kiss"


"Between the Clock and the Bed"


Christ Church Meadows, Oxford


Christmas Eve in Whitneyville



The Musk Ox


The Long River


The Snow


The Farm


The Moon


The Child


The Poem


Wells


An Airstrip in England, 1960


New Hampshire


Self-Portrait as a Bear


Orange Knee Socks


Sleeping


"King and Queen"


"Reclining Figure"


Digging


The Pilot of 1918


Letter to an English Poet


Stump


In the Kitchen of the Old House


The Days


Swan


The Man in the Dead Machine



I Am the Fox


The Alligator Bride


Sew


The Coal Fire


The Blue Wing


Woolworth's


The Repeated Shapes


Crewcuts


Tall Women


The Table


Mount Kearsarge


The Young Watch Us


Gold


Waters


Nose


Stones


The Dump


The High Pasture


The Green Shelf


Adultery at Forty


To a Waterfowl


Fete


Eleanor's Letters


The Raisin


The Town of Hill


White Apples



Root Cellar


Maple Syrup


The Toy Bone


O Cheese


Kicking the Leaves


Eating the Pig


Wolf Knife


On Reaching the Age of Two Hundred


The Flies


Ox Cart Man


Stone Walls


Old Roses


Traffic



Lady Ghost


The Black-Faced Sheep


Names of Horses


Great Day in the Cows' House


The Henyard Round


New Animals


Scenic View


Old Timers' Day


The Baseball Players


Granite and Grass


A Sister on the Tracks


A Sister by the Pond


The Day I Was Older


For an Exchange of Rings


The Impossible Marriage


Mr. Wakeville on Interstate 90


My Friend Felix


Merle Bascom's .22


Cider 5[cent] a Glass


Oliver at Thirteen


Edward's Anecdote



The One Day


Shrubs Burnt Away


Four Classic Texts


To Build a House



The Height and House of Desire


Tubes


Moon Clock


Carol


Persistence of 1937


Six Naps in One Day


The Coffee Cup


This Poem


Praise for Death


Speeches


The Night of the Day


Another Elegy



Baseball


The First Inning


The Second Inning


The Third Inning


The Fourth Inning


The Fifth Inning


The Sixth Inning


The Seventh Inning


The Eighth Inning


The Ninth Inning



The Museum of Clear Ideas


Decius-Whose Guileful


We've Come to Expect


Let Engine Cowling


Winter's Asperity Mollifies


Who's This Fellow


I'm Not Up to It


Let Many Bad Poets


In the Name Of


Mount Kearsarge Shines


Camilla, Never Ask


The Times Are Propitious


Drusilla Informs


Ship of State, Hightide


When the Young Husband


Old Woman Whom I


When the Fine Days


When I Was Young


Flaccus, Drive Up


Let Us Meditate the Virtue


We Explore Grief's


I Suppose You've Noticed


Sabina-Who Explored


Go Write a Poem


Nunc Est Bibendum


I, Too, Dislike



Extra Innings


The Tenth Inning


The Eleventh Inning


The Twelfth Inning


The Thirteenth Inning



The Old Life


Spring Glen Grammar School


The Hard Man


Venetian Nights


Blue


My Aunt Liz


Screenplay


The Profession


Edit


The Girlfriend


The Giant Broom


Mr. Eliot


Le Jazz


Just Married


Dread


The Fragments


Fame


Forty Years


What Counts


Moon Shot


7 1/2


Elbows


The Wedding Couple


Rain


Beans and Franks


Revisions


Routine



All


Her Long Illness


Barber


The Porcelain Couple


The Ship Pounding


Folding Chair


Her Intent


Without


After Life


Retriever


The Painted Bed



Letters Without Addresses


Letter with No Address


Midsummer Letter


Letter in Autumn


Letter at Christmas


Letter in the New Year


Midwinter Letter


Letter after a Year



Throwing Away


Weeds and Peonies


After Homer


Her Garden


Summer Kitchen


Wool Squares


Pond Afternoons


Hours Hours


The Wish


Another Christmas


Sweater


Distressed Haiku


Throwing the Things Away


The Perfect Life


Deathwork


Ardor


Kill the Day


Razor


Conversation's Afterplay


Charity and Dominion


Sun


Villanelle


Love Poem


Affirmation



Recent Poems


Secrets


The Angels


The Master


Surveyor and Surface


North South


The Mysteries


Olives


After Horace


Tea


Safe Sex


Tennis Ball


1943


Usage


White Clapboard


Witness's House


Gospel


We Bring Democracy to the Fish


Fishing for Cats, 1944


The Hunkering


Note


Index of Titles and First Lines