Poetry enacts our own losses so that we can share
the notion that we all lose—and hold
each other's hand, as it were, in losing.
~ Donald Hall
_____________________________Donald Hall (b. 1928) Profile at Poetry Foundation
Profile at PBS NewsHour Poetry Series
Poems, Articles by and About Hall, and Audio & Podcast (Poetry Foundation Compilation)
Poems by Hall Published in The New Yorker
Online Resources, Library of Congress
Resources Compiled by The New York Times
Ray Duckler, "Poet's Gift Folds Into Night", Concord Monitor, March 2, 2011
2010 National Medal of Arts Award
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Hall's new poetry collection, "The Back Chamber," will be published on Wednesday.
This quote conveys even greater meaning coupled with the poem variations you have read.
sharing the notion of alikeness .. i like it :-)
What a beautiful thought.
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