Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Boston, 2011. First edition. First printing, with full number line including the 1. Quarter light brown cloth over tan paper-covered boards. Fine in fine dust jacket. Original publisher's price of $22.00 present on front jacket flap. A tight, clean copy. 8vo. 82 pp. Comes with archival-quality mylar dust jacket protector. A late-career volume of poems confronting age, memory, grief, desire, and mortality with characteristic directness.

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Title: The Back Chamber: Poems (First Edition)
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company, New York
Publication Date: 2011
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0547645856
ISBN 13: 9780547645858
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition
Printing: 1st Printing
Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

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The first full-length volume of poems in a decade by the former poet laureate of the United States

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 his remarkable new 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.

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DONALD HALL (1928-2018) served as poet laureate of the United States from 2006 to 2007. He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a recipient of the National Medal of the Arts, awarded by the president.

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