New York: Ticknor & Fields. Hardcover. 1990. 1st Edition. 8vo 141pp . Fine in Very Good+ DJ. B&W Illustrations Slipcase In 1975 the author and his wife moved from Michigan to Eagle Pond Farm in Wilmot, New Hampshire .

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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: Chris Hartmann, Bookseller (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 014506
Title: Here At Eagle Pond
Author: Hall, Donald
Illustrator: Illus. by Thomas W. Nast
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Fine in Very Good+ DJ
Edition: 1st Edition
ISBN 10: 089919978X
ISBN 13: 9780899199788
Publisher: Ticknor & Fields
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1990
Keywords: New Hampshire, Country Life
Bookseller catalogs: History / US;

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