The Back Chamber

By Donald Hall

The first full-length volume of poems in a decade by the former poet laureate of the United States In The Back Chamber , Donald Hall illuminates the evocative, iconic objects of deep memory--a cowbell, a white stone perfectly round, a three-legged milking stool--that serve to foreground the rich meditations on time and mortality that run through his remarkable new collection. While Hall's devoted readers will recognize many of his long-standing preoccupations--baseball, the family farm, love, sex, and friendship--what will strike them as new is the fierce, pitiless poignancy he reveals as his own life's end comes into view. The Back Chamber is far from being death-haunted, but rather is lively, irreverent, erotic, hilarious, ironic, and sly--full of the life-affirming energy that has made Donald Hall one of America's most popular and enduring poets.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0547645856
• ISBN13: 9780547645858
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: Ecco
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.3" x 0.7" x 5.5"