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Article: ABOUT DONALD HALL.(writer)
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- Ploughshares
- Article date:
- September 22, 2001
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Hall as Young Artist
Approaching his mid-seventies, Donald Hall is--as he frequently reminds people--an old man now. Yet the term old can encompass a long shelf life, and no American writer has done more to honor the reality of time and generation than has Donald Hall. He's given detail, definition, and dignity to the reality of old: old like his grandparents, whom he so poignantly evoked in his memoir String Too Short to Be Saved; old like many of the poets he met in his relative youth, whom he characterized so vividly in Their Ancient Glittering Eyes; old like the aging widower who contemplates the premature death of his forty-seven-year-old wife in books of ...