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Here At Eagle Pond (Signed)
by Hall, Donald
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine
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Avon, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1990. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. 8vo. 141 pp. Illustrations by Thomas W. Nason. A work of prose by the prolific poet. A fine copy in sunned cardboard slipcase Quarter red cloth over green boards. Issued without dustwrapper but contained in a hard blue slipcase with illustrated paper label. SIGNED by Hall on the title page. This was fellow poet James Tate's copy who has signed his name on the front endpaper.
Synopsis
HERE AT EAGLE POND is Donald Hall's remarkable collection of essays about the permanent and transparent memory of place and of his coming home to Eagle Pond, New Hampshire, where he grew up and returned to live with his wife Jane Kenyon at the age of 45, where he began writing poems at the age of twelve, and where his ancestors made their livings by free-lancing as farmers. In these tender essays, Hall tells of the joys and quiddities of life in the ancestral New Hampshire place formerly worked as a dairy farm by his grandparents; of the comforts and discomforts of a world in which the year has four seasons -- maple sugar, blackfly, Red Sox, and winter. These essays are also Donald Hall's letters to friends, answers to such life-altering questions as: "What would our lives be like, living here at Eagle Pond, in solitude among relics and memories, in a countryside of birches and GMC pickups?" And they are ghost stories as well: vivid descriptions of Hall's intimate connection with the land and with his family past. Most importantly, HERE AT EAGLE POND is Donald Hall's coming home to language.
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- Bookseller
- Derringer Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 28665
- Title
- Here At Eagle Pond (Signed)
- Author
- Hall, Donald
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Ticknor & Fields
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1990
- Keywords
- Memoir, Nature Writing, Signed
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Literature / First Editions;
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