Best Selling Books by Donald Hall

From the author of The Oxford Book of American Literary Anecdotes comes a fascinating collection of ribald, sad, and touching stories about the artists of the modern era. Includes nearly 800 anecdotes covering almost 200 artists--from Rousseau to Picasso to Warhol--and offers a unique glimpse into the private lives of many of the world''s best-known artists.

A study of the life, character and art of one of America''s finest poets. Accounts for every phase of Marianne Moores''s life, the early sources of her unusual character, the quick recognition and encouragement of her work by Ezra Pound, her years as a young poet in Greenwich Village, her distinguished and controversial editorship of the "Dial", the most prestigious literary magazine of its day, her "retirement" to Brooklyn where she continued for decades consistently to produce some of the best poems written in our time.

Over 40 poems on nature, places, and people.

Rape is an increasingly serious social problem; the causes of which are poorly understood and preventative measures are, to date, ineffective. This book provides the reader with theory and research on rapists including adolescents, college students and criminals. Chapters discuss biological, psychological and social causes of rape and investigate recently developed clinical methods which provide hope for decreasing and preventing rape.; Whilst the empowerment of victims and potential victims of sexual aggression is critically important, there is no other type of aggressive sexual act in which the victim is so routinely blamed. This volume serves to shift the emphasis away from victim responsibility and so assist in the understanding, treatment and prevention of sexually active behaviour. lt provides a broad insight into family, cultural and evolutionary influences affecting rapists and details comprehensive Approaches To Treatment Which Take In Motivational Variables And Allow for follow up.

Part of the series Poets on Poetry, this volume contains a collection of essays, reviews, articles, profiles, notes and one interview. These selections, all written within the last five years, are mostly quite short, but inform beyond the artist or work under review. Hall''s interests range from poetry as a spoken art to the commas strangely inserted by the editor of Robert Frost''s Collected Poems and to how difficult it is to judge "the contemporary." ISBN 0-472-06340-5 : $6.95.

A man who had been unhappy as a child finds after he has grown up that he is happy living alone in his cabin in the New England woods.

In the fall of 1909, Lucy gets an early start on making Christmas presents for her family and friends, which they will open at the church''s Christmas program.

Highly respected poets, Hall and Emblem have chosen classical and contemporary selections to make this a delightful writer''s companion, now in it''s ninth edition. A Writer''s Reader is a collection of essays, short stories, and poems organized alphabetically by author. Several readings by the same author are provided for a closer look at a writer''s style. A rhetorical and thematic index is included to allow readers a way of cross-referencing selections. Overall, A Writer''s Reader contains an appealing range of types of selections-essays, a few short stories, a lecture, and a few poems. The collection includes both classic and contemporary writers-such as Maya Angelou, W.H. Auden, Ralph Ellison, Louise Erdrich, Robert Frost, Langston Hughes, Tillie Olsen, Brent Staples, Henry David Thoreau, Mark Twain, Alice Walker, and many others. MARKET For anyone interested in a neatly arranged and useful collection of inspiring short readings.

Donald Hall draws on his own childhood memories and gives himself the thing he most wanted but didn''t get as a boy: a Christmas at Eagle Pond. It’s the Christmas season of 1940, and twelve-year-old Donnie takes the train to visit his grandparents'' place in rural New Hampshire. Once there, he quickly settles into the farm’s routines. In the barn, Gramp milks the cows and entertains his grandson by speaking rhymed pieces, while Donnie’s eyes are drawn to an empty stall that houses a graceful, cobwebby sleigh. Now Model A''s speed over the wintry roads, which must be plowed, and the beautiful sleigh has become obsolete. When the church pageant is over, the gifts are exchanged, and the remains of the Christmas feast put away, the air becomes heavy with fine snowflakes—the kind that fall at the start of a big storm—and everyone wonders, how will Donnie get back to his parents on time?

Explores the history of theories of selfhood, from the Classical era to the present, and demonstrates how those theories can be applied in literary and cultural criticism. Donald E. Hall: * examines all of the major methodologies and theoretical emphases of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, including psychoanalytic criticism, materialism, feminism and queer theory * applies the theories discussed in detailed readings of literary and cultural texts, from novels and poetry to film and the visual arts * offers a unique perspective on our current obsession with perfecting our selves * looks to the future of selfhood given the new identity possibilities arising out of developing technologies. Examining some of the most exciting issues confronting cultural critics and readers today, Subjectivity is the essential introduction to a fraught but crucial critical term and a challenge to the way we define our selves.