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　　Distinguished poet Donald Hall reflects on the meaning ofwork, solitude, and love
　　“The best new book I have read this year, of extraordinarynobility 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 psychologicalnovel with a poet named Donald Hall as its protagonist. . . .Hall’s particular talents ultimately [are] for the memoir, a genrein which he has few living equals. In his hands the memoir is onlypartially an autobiographical genre. He pours both his fullcritical intelligence and poetic sensibility into the form.” —DanaGioia, Los Angeles Times
　　“Hall . . . here offers a meditative look at his life as a writerin a spare and beautifully crafted memoir. Devoted to his art, Hallcan barely wait for the sun to rise each morning so that he canbegin the task of shaping words.” —Publishers Weekly (starredreview)

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.

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作者简介

　　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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　　The best new book I have read this year, of extraordinarynobility 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 psychologicalnovel with a poet named Donald Hall as its protagonist. . . .Hall's particular talents ultimately [are] for the memoir, a genrein which he has few living equals. In his hands the memoir is onlypartially an autobiographical genre. He pours both his fullcritical intelligence and poetic sensibility into the form."—DanaGioia, Los Angeles Times
　　"Hall . . . here offers a meditative look at his life as a writerin a spare and beautifully crafted memoir. Devoted to his art, Hallcan barely wait for the sun to rise each morning so that he canbegin the task of shaping words."—Publishers Weekly (starredreview)
"I [am] delighted and moved by Donald Hall's Life Work, hisautobiographical tribute to sheer work--as distinguished fromlabor--as the most satisfying and ennobling of activities, whetherone is writing, canning vegetables or playing a dung fork on a NewHampshire farm."—Paul Fussell, The Boston Globe

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’s Life Work has been strangely gripping, what with
his daily to do lists, his ruminations on the sublimating power of
work. Hall has written so much about that house in New Hampshire
where he lives that I’m beginning to think of it less as a place
than a state of mind. I find it odd that a creative mind can work
with such Spartan organization (he describes waiting for the alarm
to go off at 4:45 AM, so eager is he to get to his desk) at such a
mysterious activity (making a poem work) without getting in the way
of itself."—John Freeman’s blog (National Book Critics Circle Board
President)

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