Distinguished poet Donald Hall reflects on the meaning of
work, solitude, and love
“The best new book I have read this year, of extraordinary
nobility and wisdom. It will remain with me always.” —Louis Begley,
The New York Times
“A sustained meditation on work as the key to personal happiness.
. . . Life Work reads most of all like a first-person psychological
novel with a poet named Donald Hall as its protagonist. . . .
Hall’s particular talents ultimately [are] for the memoir, a genre
in which he has few living equals. In his hands the memoir is only
partially an autobiographical genre. He pours both his full
critical intelligence and poetic sensibility into the form.” —Dana
Gioia, Los Angeles Times
“Hall . . . here offers a meditative look at his life as a writer
in a spare and beautifully crafted memoir. Devoted to his art, Hall
can barely wait for the sun to rise each morning so that he can
begin the task of shaping words.” —Publishers Weekly starred
review
“I [am] delighted and moved by Donald Hall’s Life Work, his
autobiographical tribute to sheer work—as distinguished from
labor—as the most satisfying and ennobling of activities, whether
one is writing, canning vegetables or playing a dung fork on a New
Hampshire farm.” —Paul Fussell, The Boston Globe
Donald Hall is the author of numerous prizewinning volumes of
poetry, including The One Day, winner of the National Book Critics
Circle Award, essays, children’s books, and criticism. His new
collection of short stories, The Willow Temple, will be published
by Houghton Mifflin this spring.
關於作者：
DONALD HALL, poet laureate of the United States from 2006 to
2007, has received the National Book Critics Circle Award, the
Los Angeles Times Book Prize in poetry, the Lenore
Marshall Award, the 1990 Frost Medal from the Poetry Society of
America, and the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. He is a member of the
American Academy of Arts and Letters.
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