Without
by Hall, Donald
You might expect the fact of dying--the dying of a beloved wife and fellow poet--to make for a bleak and lonely tale. But Donald Hall's poignant and courageous poetry, facing that dread fact, involves us all: the magnificent, humorous, and gifted woman, Jane Kenyon, who suffered and died; the doctors and nurses who tried but failed to save her; the neighbors, friends, and relatives who grieved for her; the husband who sat by her while she lived and afterward sat in their house alone with his pain, self-pity, and fury; and those of us who till now had nothing to do with it. As Donald Hall writes, "Remembered happiness is agony; so is remembered agony." Without will touch every feeling reader, for everyone has suffered loss and requires the fellowship of elegy. In the earth's oldest poem, when Gilgamesh howls of the death of Enkidu, a grieving reader of our own time may feel a kinship, across the abyss of four thousand years, with a Sumerian king. In Without Donald Hall speaks to us all of grief, as a poet lamenting the death of a poet, as a husband mourning the loss of a wife. Without is Hall's greatest and most honorable achievement -- his give and testimony, his lament and his celebration of loss and of love.
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Used - Very Good/Very Good. First Edition, First Printing (Full Number Line). Not price-clipped ($22.00 price intact). Published by Houghton Mifflin, 1998. Octavo. Black cloth over black boards stamped in gold with green endpapers. Book is very good; with no writing or names. Sharp corners and spine straight. Binding tight and… Read more about this item Item Price
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Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1998. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo, 81 pages; VG/VG; black spine with white and gold lettering; dust jacket protected by a mylar cover; price uncut "$22.00"; minimal shelf wear, pages clean; signed, inscribed, and dated by Donald Hall on the title pages; shelved in Poetry. 1337435. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Item Price
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company / Mariner, 1999. First Paperbound edition. Paperback. Near Fine. Trade paperbound book. 81 pp. First paperbound edition. A near fine example. Poems written to his former wife Jane Kenyon who died in 1995. This copy has been briefly INSCRIBED by Hall and dated in 2002. Item Price
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Boston, MA, U.S.A.: Houghton Mifflin Company Trade & Reference Division, 1999. Book. Near Fine. Trade Paperback. Signed by Author(s). First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First edition in paperback. SIGNED/INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR on title page in year of publication. Near fine condition.. Item Price
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Boston: HMCo, 1998. Softcover. Fine. Adv reading cy. Fine in Stiff paper covers. (Pages: 81) Advance Reading Copy from an Uncorrected Proof. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information. Item Price
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New York, NY: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1998. 1st Edition 2nd Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. A fine collectible book. DJ is priced clipped. Book appears UNREAD. Donald Hall's poignant and courageous poetry speaks of the death of the Hall's s wife, the magnificent, humorous, and gifted Jane Kenyon. Hall speaks to us all of grief, as a poet lamenting… Read more about this item Item Price
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New York: Mariner Books, 1999. Book. As New. Soft cover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First Mariner Books Softcover Edition/9th Printing. Softcover. 81 pages. The anguish of loss strikes like a fist. These poems are written to and for his wife, Jane Kenyon, who died in 1995. A poignant and powerful testimony to both love and loss, celebration and lament.… Read more about this item Item Price
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