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Poems deal with farm life, summer, animals, memories, childhood, baseball, love, marriage, aging, and mortality
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After building, burning, or rebuilding various figurative houses, Hall's happy man finally discovers "a mortal house" where he can smell the "double scent of heaven and cut hay." His affirmation is hard earned. A "classic abandoned farm" is not a generous haven: the past stays "intractable," like granite; the legacies of ancestors are cold. The happy man becomes deeply fearful. Disintegration begins: "flour and yeast draw apart." As the days tick on "like metal in stillness," he is paralyzed by the thought of inevitability. Miraculously, "the white hair/ that grows from the wrist's knuckle" shows him how to live without being fearful. The happy man is the man who offers his "cup to you: though we drink/ from this cup every day, we will never drink it dry." Here, Hall is at his best. Highly recommended. Joseph Garrison, English Dept., Mary Baldwin Coll., Staunton, Va.
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Acorns
The Baseball Players
Couplet
The Day I Was Older
For An Exchange Of Rings
Granite And Grass
Great Day In The Cow's House
The Henyard Round
The Impossible Marriage
Merle Bascom's .22
Mr. Wakeville On Interstate 90
My Friend Felix
New Animals
The Revolution
The Rocker
Scenic View
Shrubs Burned Away
A Sister By The Pond
A Sister On The Tracks
Sums (from The Daye-boke Of Adam Raison, 1515-1560)
Twelve Seasons
Whip-poor-will
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- PublisherRandom House
- Publication date1986
- ISBN 10 0394554787
- ISBN 13 9780394554785
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
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- Number of pages60
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