{"id":126835,"date":"2018-06-25T09:00:26","date_gmt":"2018-06-25T13:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=126835"},"modified":"2018-06-26T10:21:33","modified_gmt":"2018-06-26T14:21:33","slug":"donald-hall-who-gave-his-life-to-work-and-eros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2018\/06\/25\/donald-hall-who-gave-his-life-to-work-and-eros\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Hall, Who Gave His Life to Work and Eros"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_126836\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/donald-hall2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-126836\" class=\"size-full wp-image-126836\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/donald-hall2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/donald-hall2.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/donald-hall2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/donald-hall2-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-126836\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Donald Hall in 2014. Photo: Henri Cole.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He worked hard and now can rest. He was one of America\u2019s best-loved poets and won all the literary awards. At eighty-six, he had his first <em>New York Times<\/em> best seller, with <em>Essays After Eighty<\/em>, celebrating the indignities of growing old. I once gave him a terrible review, and we didn\u2019t speak for years. \u201cI know I was pissed at you for ten or twelve years,\u201d he wrote. \u201cI take it back. You are good.\u201d He was a judge for the Pulitzer the year I was a finalist. We became friends.<\/p>\n<p>He wrote dozens of books: poetry, short stories, children\u2019s books, criticism, and textbooks. He was devoted to the art and craft of writing, and his discipline was an example to others. He seemed to give his life over to work and Eros. He was also very funny and very particular (\u201cI love chicken salad, egg salad as long as it has onion, turkey and salami. I don\u2019t like tuna\u201d). The horrors of antiquity\u2014a \u201cblack fatigue,\u201d congestive heart failure, \u201ca hundred and fifty colonoscopies,\u201d walking more slowly with his \u201crollator,\u201d falling down, the loss of words\u2014did not exclude joy and love.\u00a0<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>At <em>T<\/em><em>he<\/em> <em>Harvard Advocate<\/em>, in 1948, he and Robert Bly got to be friends while together reading Robert Lowell\u2019s second book of poetry, <em>Lord Weary\u2019s Castle<\/em>. He and Frank O\u2019Hara and their classmates drank beer at Cronin\u2019s all the time. Later, he taught undergraduates in Ann Arbor. Though he loved that work, he loved, even more, writing all day, every day, so he came back to rural New Hampshire to live in the house on the land where his ancestors had lived.<\/p>\n<p>Don loved metrical verse and had a cranky passion about it. Way back at the beginning, he wrote in somewhat strict iambic pentameter, but after years of reading Thomas Hardy, he loosened up and wrote with a more improvised structure. Metrical verse organizes sound in the mouth in a beautiful way he could not resist. Still, he loved free verse\u2014\u201cwhatever that is!\u201d\u2014and wrote it, though eventually he stopped writing poetry altogether: \u201cI didn\u2019t give up on poetry, poetry gave up on me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I think he feared that readers might like his prose more than his poetry (maybe I did), but his book-length poem in three parts, <em>The One Day<\/em>, is a magnificent creation and won a National Book Critics Circle Award. It is a poem written out of a barrage of language, a \u201cmeteor shower\u201d of words that became a book seventeen years later. Part reminiscence and part fantasy, this extraordinary long poem records both a personal crisis and a corrupt contemporary political culture. \u201cAn astonishing tour de force,\u201d to quote Charles Simic\u2019s review in <em>The New York Review of Books<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I give my deepest thanks to those who cared for Don daily, as his life slowly moved away from him. Kendel, who typed. Little Louise, who delivered the mail. His cousins, who plowed and dug him out in winter. His trainer, his cook, his caregivers. Linda, his girlfriend. His beloved kids. His grandchildren. To quote a friend, \u201cSo now, earth receive an honored guest \u2026\u2009\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_126840\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/with-donald-hall-halloween-2014-new-london-nh.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-126840\" class=\"size-large wp-image-126840\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/with-donald-hall-halloween-2014-new-london-nh-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/with-donald-hall-halloween-2014-new-london-nh-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/with-donald-hall-halloween-2014-new-london-nh-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/with-donald-hall-halloween-2014-new-london-nh-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/with-donald-hall-halloween-2014-new-london-nh.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-126840\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Henri Cole with Donald Hall in 2014. Photo: Henri Cole.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Read our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/interviews\/2163\/donald-hall-the-art-of-poetry-no-43-donald-hall\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Art of Poetry<\/a> interview with Donald Hall.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/interviews\/6312\/henri-cole-the-art-of-poetry-no-98-henri-cole\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Henri Cole<\/a>\u00a0is the author, most recently, of\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyrb.com\/products\/orphic-paris\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Orphic Paris<\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; He worked hard and now can rest. He was one of America\u2019s best-loved poets and won all the literary awards. At eighty-six, he had his first New York Times best seller, with Essays After Eighty, celebrating the indignities of growing old. I once gave him a terrible review, and we didn\u2019t speak for years. 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