
Back Chamber
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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 stool-that serve to foreground the rich meditations on time and mortality that run through this remarkable collection. While Hall's devoted readers will recognize many of his long-standing preoccupations-baseball, the family farm, love, sex, and friendship-what will strike them as new is the fierce, pitiless poignancy he reveals as his own life's end comes into view. The Back Chamber is far from being death-haunted, but rather is lively, irreverent, erotic, hilarious, ironic, and sly-full of the life-affirming energy that has made Donald Hall one of America's most popular and enduring poets.
"For the reader boiling in triple-digit SoCal heat at the end of the summer, Donald Hall's The Back Chamber: Poems arrives like a sudden cloudburst and shower of cooling rain... A former U.S. poet laureate, Hall has always had this elemental power-to vividly evoke his particular New England climate and geography so that it can't be mistaken for any other-but what is more unexpected in this new collection of poems, his 16th, is passion." - Los Angeles Times
"The former U.S. poet laureate reaches his 20th book in unmistakably honest form, aggressively plain and unfailingly open about sex, old age, suicide, recovery, the friendship of poets, the business of poetry, dogs, New Hampshire, and baseball." - Publishers Weekly
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Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Contents
- Copyright
- Dedication
- I. Meatloaf
- The Things
- Love's Progress
- Showtunes
- The 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
- II. Ric's Progress
- 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
- Blue Snow
- Goosefeathers
- The Back Chamber
- Maples
- The Bone Ring
- Alterations
- Pieces
- Envy
- "Poetry and Ambition"
- Green Farmhouse Chairs
- About the Author
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