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  • READING SEXUALITIES
    DONALD E. HALL
    Reading Sexualities confronts the reigning practices, priorities, and preoccupations of queer theory and sexuality studies. Looking at a range of texts, from novels to travel narratives to internet porn, Donald E. Hall deftly weaves the theoretical with the literary in order to: examine the vexed ethical, critical, and political questions arising from sexual consumerism and cro...

    $1,120.00

  • SUBJECTIVITY
    DONALD HALL
    Explores the history of theories of selfhood, from the Classical era to the present, and demonstrates how those theories can be applied in literary and cultural criticism. Donald E. Hall: * examines all of the major methodologies and theoretical emphases of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, including psychoanalytic criticism, materialism, feminism and queer theory * app...

    $640.00

  • WILLOW TEMPLE
    DONALD HALL
    A collection of stories by the former US poet laureate, "a first-rate work by an author whose control over the tools of his genre is impeccable" ( Publishers Weekly). A contemplative selection of twelve short stories from the celebrated author Donald Hall, Willow Temple focuses on the effects of divorce, adultery, and neglect. Hall's stories are reminiscent of those of Alice Mu...

    $169.00

  • THE PAINTED BED
    DONALD HALL
    The former US poet laureate delivers a book "filled with raw sexual disclosures, rowdy anger and a self-blasting mockery" ( The New York Times). Donald Hall's fourteenth collection opens with an epigraph from the Urdu poet Faiz: "The true subject of poetry is the loss of the beloved." In that poetic tradition, as in The Painted Bed, the beloved might be a person or something el...

    $179.00

  • THE OLD LIFE
    DONALD HALL
    The prize-winning poet's collection of autobiographical poems is "the work of a master, all the more poignant for its frankness . . . in the face of tragedy" ( Pittsburgh Post-Gazette). One of America's most celebrated poets, Donald Hall was at the height of his powers when he wrote The Old Life. Intimate, anecdotal and often funny, these autobiographical poems follow Hall from...

    $169.00

  • OLD AND NEW POEMS
    DONALD HALL
    This collection drawn from more than forty years of the poet's work is "a superb introduction to newcomers and a sumptuous offering to familiars" ( Publishers Weekly). Former US Poet Laureate Donald Hall has been celebrated with numerous awards, including the National Book Critics Circle Award and the National Medal of the Arts. This volume collects some of Hall's finest short ...

    $119.00

  • SEXUAL AGGRESSION
    DONALD HALL
    Rape is an increasingly serious social problem; the causes of which are poorly understood and preventative measures are, to date, ineffective. This book provides the reader with theory and research on rapists including adolescents, college students and criminals. Chapters discuss biological, psychological and social causes of rape and investigate recently developed clinical met...

    $2,000.00

  • THE SELECTED POEMS OF DONALD HALL
    DONALD HALL
    The f ormer U.S. poet laureate presents the essential work from across his long and celebrated career in this sweeping collection. For decades, Donald Hall produced a body of work that established him as one of America's most significant—and beloved—poets of his generation. Celebrated for his plainspoken yet evocative imagery and his stirring explorations of bucolic life, Hall ...

    $229.00

  • ESSAYS AFTER EIGHTY
    DONALD HALL
    The former U.S. Poet Laureate contemplates life, death, and the view from his window in these "a lternately lyrical and laugh-out-loud funny " essays ( The New York Times). From an early age, Donald Hall dedicated his life to the written word. In his long and celebrated career, he was an accomplished poet, essayist, memoirist, dramatist, and children's author. Now, in the "unkn...

    $229.00

  • THE BACK CHAMBER
    DONALD HALL
    The former US poet laureate has crafted poems full of "unexpected insights, charms, droll observations, self-mockery, and well-earned wisdom" ( Rain Taxi). 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 morta...

    $119.00

  • THE MUSEUM OF CLEAR IDEAS
    DONALD HALL
    "With The One Day, this is his best work, a modest, skeptical, and brave poetry that embodies something essential about this late American century." — Harvard Review This is Donald Hall's most advanced work, extending his poetic reach even beyond his recent volumes. Conflict dominates this book, and conflict unites it. Hall takes poetry as an instrument for revelation, whether ...

    $179.00