RIP Donald Hall

[TheSportsPredictor]

Donald Hall, a Poet Laureate of the Rural Life, Is Dead at 89

Former poet laureate of the United States.

Also wrote two baseball books.

 

[Azrael]

I've been tweeting a little about him.

One of the last of the postwar American giants.

And one of the singular privileges of my career was to appear on the same OpEd page with Mr. Hall in that strike-ruined summer of 1994.

 

[Azrael]

Good little documentary here about Mr. Hall and his wife, the poet Jane Kenyon.

 

[Azrael]

He was also the original poetry editor of the Paris Review.




Donald Hall, The Art of Poetry No. 43

 

[typefitter]

He was one of my favourite parts of the Ken Burns Baseball doc. Rest in peace, man great with words.