Eagle Pond

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 landscape and culture that are disappearing under the assault of change.

Product details

• Authors: Donald Hall
• Assisted by: Thomas W Nason (Illustration), Thomas W. Nason (Illustration)
• Publisher: Ecco Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.04.2007
• EAN: 9780618839346
• ISBN: 978-0-618-83934-6
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 16 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Poetry, Memoirs, United States of America, USA, Regional / International studies, Literary essays, Anthologies: general, Language learning: writing skills, Creative writing and creative writing guides, Biography: writers, Cultural studies: customs and traditions, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Personal Memoirs, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Literary Figures, NATURE: Essays, POETRY: American / General, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: Essays, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES: Writing / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE: Regional Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE: Customs & Traditions