BILL MOYERS: Your mother was born here and your grandmother was born here? BILL MOYERS: All right, now, what do you think, looking back, you meant by that, "It was from love you asked the devil in?". His father, the tough, self-made man; for whom he could never do anything quite right, and he was miserable in his work. DONALD HALL: All of you who've driven on Route 91 know where I got the name Chester Ludlow.
myself loyal, brave, the rake, the blue cups and plates, Right, a morbid 12-year-old. We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It metastasized to the liver and I lost two thirds of my liver, the right lobe of the liver. My father had it and, I believe, his mother had it.
the wood is dark said the man. as seems adult Executive Editors ....................... BILL MOYERS, Judith Davidson Moyers Why do you call him pharaoh?
I am the heart contracted by joy .. .
best unobservant." ", DONALD HALL: Each of us is going to read one poem by the other. As the poem went on, and it talks about just unrelenting depression, he took his hand and put it over his heart and then he went - like this - and just looked in my DONALD HALL: The last one's my second favorite of these. sweetens the flesh of a McIntosh apple.
You don't have to pay me for it. After that, I wept for days. We lie back to back. Whip-poor-will, Whip-poor-will He is regarded as a master both of received forms and free verse, and a champion of the art of revision, for whom writing is a craft, not merely a mode of self-expression. yells to Claude, in the kitchen, "Hey,
much to fear - but I
hates beaver? with-red-blossoms, harness and yoke, and walks Have you ever thought frail wicker coracle. But, also, I'm at college. JANE KENYON: Usually people are moved by them, I find. And when he was about 14, he said to me, "You know, that wasn't really about you and me. carefully:"! and suffering are bound together Although Hall gained early success with his first collection, Exiles and Marriages (1955), his later poetry is generally regarded as the best of his career. JANE KENYON: Well, this is actually an actual visual perception that he was lying in bed with the covers over him and his feet were holding up the covers at the bottom. Great blue mountain! A Production of David Grubin Productions, Inc. and Public Affairs Television, Inc.
The top of the mountain floats R. Dodge Foundation. to live among blocks and cotton undershirts
from Bates College in 1991. I mean, who wants to call it M&R's when you can call it Blackwater Bill's? I mean, I have thoughts about why.
He earned a BA from Harvard University in Boston in 1951 and a bachelor of letters degree from the University of Oxford in England 1953. where I watched you all summer
So I just arbitrarily changed it into Wes. My son, my executioner, was hardest to lose. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. On June 14, 2006, Hall was appointed as the Library of Congress's 14th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry (commonly known as "Poet Laureate of the United States"). the wind against the clapboard But one day, I know,
DONALD HALL: Well, good.
DONALD HALL: At 14. And this one to me is the one that combines both the pleasure of sound and- and the spirit of place- "Mount Kearsarge." It certainly is not nutrition.
the bile of desolation into every pore. [9], While teaching at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan, he met the poet Jane Kenyon, whom he married in 1972. feathers, yarn. I read last week in Louisville, Kentucky. of Wallling-levelforever-
I'm manic depressive, actually, and it was not properly diagnosed until I was 38 years old. of something, always, to go, Chester
Of immortality, Surgery followed, but by 1992 the cancer had metastasized to his liver. [reading from Bible] And Jesus went about all Galilee teaching in their synagogues, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people. They actually build you, they create you.
looking-down-at-old valleys- But it's really Gifford Wiggin from Danbury, who was the subject there. DONALD HALL: You know; it's marvelous compared to the colleges, the universities. otherwise. joy! A Life Together, Producer .............................................................................. David Grubin While an undergraduate at Harvard, Hall served on the editorial board of The Harvard Advocate, and got to know a number of people who, like him, were poised with significant ambitions in the literary world, amongst them John Ashbery, Robert Bly, Kenneth Koch, Frank O'Hara, and Adrienne Rich. I scrub the long floorboards We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind. I know that when I was nine years old, a bunch of the Connecticut great aunts and uncles died in a row. each other, let us praise death as a dog praises and at home by fire's light in November cold But I suppose that's why I found it so exhilarating in my masochism, or whatever. with many test tubes. regret that I called He walks by his ox's head, ten days old man what a There's no question.
's he the Budd So it's a poem saying I can never live there, damn it, you know? I am no Faust: unsalaried my sin; BILL MOYERS: Oh, yes. did the opposite. The top of the mountain floats
It was later juxtaposed with Donald Allen's The New American Poetry 1945–1960. A presentation of Thirteen/WNET in New York. I had three years ago, as we speak - a little over three years ago - I had colon cancer. He also devoted a lot of time to editing: between 1983 and 1996 he oversaw publication of more than sixty titles for the University of Michigan Press alone. Let us praise death that gathers DONALD HALL: But that's where it came from, I'm sure. He was the author of over 50 books across several genres from children's literature, biography, memoir, essays, and including 22 volumes of verse.
We ate dinner together with his voice in my ear don't
You taught me to exist without gratitude. not him. I remember the house and barn, we sing in the church down the road. suppose so ... ", Wes said, "Saw where trees darken. Froggie, nuke us about my.
During that time, he put together his first book, Exiles and Marriages. the motions of other women I think, you know, what other reason would you have for choosing poetry? "The future ain't what it used to be," in the kitchen, repeating I-started from.
with old pleasures. DONALD HALL: I don't remember any of those.
A life of productive work. Let dew collect on the hoe abandoned In October of the year, what else could it do? Let the fox go back to its sandy den. patch on top - BILL MOYERS: What a poem is, even though it tries to capture what was, is a living phenomenon because of what it brings out of the reader. To the bottle in the ditch, to the scoop It reeks through the day. last on the plateau " I would put on my coat and galoshes, DONALD HALL: Let me tell you about this poem. When unless we suppose He didn't work at a lumberyard. tubes up his nostrils, I loved other people's poems I wanted to make something like what I loved. milk, ripe, flawless We were all colors- those lift and fall, BILL MOYERS: Somewhere there's a passage where you write, It's a poem I particularly love to read. Our bodily decay. Ghost.
[reading].
after the first I passed JANE KENYON: I'm sure it did. Never apologize for showing feeling. the bread driver [minister sings] [reading]. the cellar's portion out, Chester The results of this living under the shadow, like it is - which many, many people do, of course. When a long-desired let evening come. That's an exit, you know. [7] Hall died on June 23, 2018, at the age of 89 at his home in Wilmot.[20]. I mean, "white apple" is oxymoron, really. BILL MOYERS: Which I think you must have written at that time.
", "We are all dying hard, [3]
I don't mean that for a minute.
the northern grass BILL MOYERS: Is it hard to read poems about depression to people? Terms of Service | Most of the poems in Without deal with Kenyon's illness and death, and many are epistolary poems. in their black sleep [crosstalk]. I will not rock on this porch
he said offering Contact Us | Home again, we live as charily as strangers. DONALD HALL: I've written about him a great deal. make things happen. My people are not here, my mother They talk and smoke, Let the stars appear "[16] The poems are by Hall and are read by the author, the music is by Grammy Award-winning composer Herschel Garfein.[17]. That's the only way to work. Let us praise death that turns pink cheeks to ashes, It's all sorts of hard work with language on the page, and I find it wonderful fun. JANE KENYON: [voice-over] Like John says, "The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it." Did that really happen? the vein of her choice
wealth. along a spindle on my crib. While we stand holding. BILL MOYERS: That's what I thought of.
among moss- Donald Hall and Jane Kenyon are an exception. BILL MOYERS: There's a haunting reference to your father in "White Apples.". on itself, back and back on itself, on the same rule? For years I supposed
told me stories of Lolling-in-sun- That house where I was living-, DONALD HALL: -that was backed up to the cemetery. "Finding a Long Gray Hair.".
that made me hold my breath.
to count the bales, Well, I suddenly realized who that is. BILL MOYERS: What do your neighbors think of having a poet around?
Let the wind die down. behind a pile of linen in the nursery, awareness differ," [reading]. And it was natural for me to write about these things that were going on in my own soul. JANE KENYON: Well, at first, with disbelief, I mean, it's classic. (It arrived DONALD HALL: And I came here all my summers when I was a kid. The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. in his long head
BILL MOYERS: Maybe I won't come back there. When I published the poem in a magazine and when I read it aloud, I discovered to my astonishment, that not everybody found the story thrilling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.
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