NY: Ticknor & Fields. VG hb in G slipcase. 1990. 1st printing. Homes and haunts of New Hampshire - why we live here. It was here I began writing poetry when I moved back from Michigan. . Slight fading to edge of slipcase. Inscribed by author on title page "for Diane and Jack with the pleasure of places. Donald Hall 23 November 1990" Jack was Jack Barnes, author from Hiram, ME .

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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: Crabtree's Collection Old Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: BOOKS056309I
Title: Here at Eagle Pond
Author: Hall, Donald (Inscribed by Author)
Illustrator: Illus by Thomas A. Nason
Book Condition: Used - VG hb in G slipcase
Edition: 1st printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Ticknor & Fields
Place of Publication: NY
Date Published: 1990
Keywords: Homes and haunts of New Hampshire - why we live here. It was here I, began writing poetry when I moved back from Michigan., Inscribed by author

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