Donald Hall

Share an old-fashioned New England Christmas with your children—back to a time when making the presents was far more satisfying than buying them. Lucy Wells likes planning ahead. In her quaint New England town, the leaves have just begun to change, but Lucy is already thinking of Christmas. She begins to make presents for her family: a pincushion for her...

Former poet laureate of the United States Donald Hall’s final collection of essays, from the vantage point of very old age, is once again “alternately lyrical and laugh-out-loud funny.” (New York Times) “Why should a nonagenarian hold anything back?” Donald Hall answers his own question in these self-knowing, fierce, and funny essays on ageing, the pleasures of solitude, and the...

Old Poets is an indispensable jewel.- Washington Post An astonishing array of encounters... Hall's observations are shrewd and generous.- Boston Globe Intimate portraits of great poets in old age, giving new insight into their work and their lives, and context to the often flawless art created by flawed human beings. The best of themselves endure, and the old poets' existence...