Kicking the Leaves
By Donald Hall
1976
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In 1975, in the middle of his life, Donald Hall left Ann Arbor, where he had taught for many years at the University of Michigan, left university teaching entirely, and moved to a New Hampshire farm to spend all his time writing. It was the place his great-grandfather farmed from 1865 to 1913, where his grandmother and his mother were born, the place where Hall spent his boyhood summers haying and writing his first poems. In the three years since the move, the word has gone out. As he approaches fifty, back in the house where the poetry began, Hall has come into his own.
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Donald Hall
Author · 51 books
Donald Hall was an American poet, writer, editor and literary critic. He began writing as an adolescent and attended the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference at the age of sixteen—the same year he had his first work published. Donald Hall published numerous books of poetry. Besides poetry, Donald Hall wrote books on baseball, the sculptor Henry Moore, and the poet Marianne Moore. He was also the author of children's books. Hall edited more than two dozen textbooks and anthologies. His honors include two Guggenheim fellowships, the Poetry Society of America's Robert Frost Silver medal, a Lifetime Achievement award from the New Hampshire Writers and Publisher Project, and the Ruth Lilly Prize for poetry. Hall also served as Poet Laureate of New Hampshire from 1984 to 1989. In December 1993 he and his wife poet Jane Kenyon were the subject of an Emmy Award-winning Bill Moyers documentary, "A Life Together." In the June 2006, Hall was appointed the Library of Congress' fourteenth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry.
