New York, NY: Ticknor & Fields, 1992. First Edition, First Printing . Soft cover. Very Good/None as Issued. Thomas W. Nason (Wood Engravings). Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Illustrated soft cover/VG w/inexplicable clean rubs to edges & surfaces. Second volume in a series of three on life in New Hampshire by the fourteenth (2006) U.S Poet Laureate Donald Hall (1928 -). This book precedes "Here at Eagle Pond" (follows "Seasons at Eagle Pond" (1987) and precedes "Eagle Pond" (2007). Donald Hall and his wife Jane Kenyon (1947-1995) moved to Eagle Pond Farm in Wilmot, NH in 1975; both were Poet Laureates of the State ... Hall from 1984 to 1989, and Kenyon in 1995 was appointed New Hampshire Poet Laureate.He was Poet Laureate of New Hampshire from 1984-1989. Home coming for Hall, the sense of belonging to the community and land permeates their writings. Of this collection of essays, Halls says, "The first essays is 'Why We Live Here,' and so is the second, and so is the third..." Fine copy despite flaws.

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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: 100 POCKETS (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 009474
Title: HERE AT EAGLE POND
Author: Hall, Donald
Illustrator: Thomas W. Nason (Wood Engravings)
Format/Binding: Soft cover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition: None as Issued
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First Edition, First Printing
Binding: Paperback
ISBN 10: 0395611547
ISBN 13: 9780395611548
Publisher: Ticknor & Fields
Place of Publication: New York, NY
Date Published: 1992
Keywords: Anthology/Prose Narratives/New Hampshire/New England
Bookseller catalogs: Philosophy; Narratives/Essays/Prose;

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