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050	0	0	_aPS3515.A3152 _bB33 2011
082	0	0	_a811.54 HAL
100	1		_aHall, Donald _d, 1928-
245	1	4	_aThe back chamber _c/ Donald Hall
260			_aBoston _b: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt _c, 2011.
300			_a82 p. _c; 22 cm.
520			_aThe first full-length volume of poems in a decade by former poet laureate of the United States Donald Hall. 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, sexy, hilarious, ironic, and sly--full of the life-affirming energy that has made Donald Hall one of America's most popular and enduring poets.
586			_aUS Poet Laureate 2006-7
650		7	_aPoetry, American
942			_cMO
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