Donald Hall reading & book signing for "The Best Day The Worst Day Life with Jane Kenyon" Tuesday, May 17 at 7:00 pm at The Booksmith (1644 Haight Street)
--- Donald Hall's celebrated book of poems, Without, was written for his wife, the poet Jane Kenyon, who died in 1995. Hall, an acclaimed poet and essayist, returns to this powerful territory in The Best Day the Worst Day, a work of prose that stands alongside Elegy to Iris as a powerful testimony to both loss and love.
Donald Hall has written two dozen books, including Exiles and Marriages (1955), which was the Lamont Poetry Selection, and The One Day (1988), which won the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and a Pulitzer Prize nomination. He authored a children's book, Ox-Cart Man (1979), which won the Caldecott Medal, and Father's Playing Catch with Sons (1984), which was a national bestseller. He served as poetry editor of The Paris Review from 1953 to 1962, and in 1993 he and Jane Kenyon were the subject of an Emmy Award-winning Bill Moyers documentary, "A Life Together."
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