Best Selling Books by Donald Hall

One of America''s finest poets joins forces with one of baseball''s most outrageous pitchers to paint a revealing portrait of our national game. Donald Hall''s forceful, yet elegant, prose brings together all the elements of Dock Ellis''s story into a seamless whole. The two of them, the pitcher and the poet, give us remarkable insight into the customs and culture of this closed clannish world. Dock''s keen vision, filtered through Hall''s extraordinary voice, shows us the hardships and problems of the thinking athlete in an unthinking world.

A young boy spends the summer on his grandparents'' farm in New Hampshire while his mother works in the war effort in New York and his father serves on a destroyer in the Pacific.

"These vivid New Hampshire farm sketches from Hall''s well-spent youth--all written when he was full-grown--are as much attuned to the supple and enticing utilities of language as they are grounded in a vanished time which may, at a glimpse, seem simple, but were complex and rich and not simple at all."--Richard Ford This is a collection of story-essays diverse in subject but united by the limitless affection the author holds for the land and the people of New England. Donald Hall tells about life on a small farm where, as a boy, he spent summers with his grandparents. Gradually the boy grows to be a young man, sees his grandparents aging, the farm become marginal, and finally, the cows sold and the barn abandoned. But these are more than nostalgic memories, for in the measured and tender prose of each episode are signs of the end of things: a childhood, perhaps a culture. In an Epilogue written for this edition, Donald Hall describes his return to the farm twenty-five years later, to live the rest of his life in the house that held a box of string too short to be saved.

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.

Lively, pointed, often polemical essays and interviews on the nature of creativity and the function of poetry

A young poet recalls his personal encounters with Robert Frost, Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, and Dylan Thomas and speaks of their private and literary concerns, especially in their later years.

Donald Hall has written a vivid memoir of the eminent poets of our century. While still a student, Donald Hall came to know Robert Frost, Dylan Thomas, and T. S. Eliot. He interviewed Eliot, Ezra Pound, and Marianne Moore for The Paris Review, and his portraits, anecdotes, descriptions, criticisms, and literary gossip, drawn from life

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.

Over 40 poems on nature, places, and people.

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.

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?

A boy meets the young Babe Ruth and along with his family follows the Babe''s long and illustrious career.

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.

This study examines a number of public sector organizations which have made a systematic and concerted effort to improve the quality of the services they provide while overcoming the problems that can arise during the implementation process. It analyzes the special difficulties of implementation that occur in a government context, and provides practical guidance on how to effect organizational change so as to minimize the risk of failure.

"Corporal Politics documents an exhibition at the MIT List Visual Arts Center featuring the works of eight internationally recognized artists: Louise Bourgeois, Kiki Smith, Rona Pondick, Annette Messager, Robert Gober, David Wojnarowicz, Lilla LoCurto, and William Outcault. The work of these artists showcases a striking, recent artistic phenomenon: the disturbing isolation of body parts, internal organs, and bodily fluids to express the vulnerability of our bodies to physical violence, sexual oppression, and ultimate loss. From a sculpture of glass sperm to images confronting AIDS, the works of art represented here poignantly question ideals of coherent identity and an integrated self in our times."--Back cover.

The skill of a young riddler saves the day for the entire rat community.