Books : The One Day: A Poem in Three Parts
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by: Donald Hall
Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 811.54
EAN: 9780899198170
ISBN: 0899198171
Label: Ticknor & Fields
Manufacturer: Ticknor & Fields
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 67
Publication Date: 1988-09
Publisher: Ticknor & Fields
Sales Rank: 1877748
Studio: Ticknor & Fields
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Product Description:
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in poetry, this serious, ambitious, and graceful book-length poem is the masterwork of one of America's foremost contemporary poets.
Amazon.com Review:
The One Day is a long poem that weaves the voice of a male and a female together with classic texts in an examination of middle age and its accompanying crisis. The poem, which won a National Book Critics Circle Award in 1988, has three parts--'Shrubs Burnt Away,' 'Four Classic Texts' and 'To Build a House'--and uses a 10-line stanza with variable line length in an experimental form. The words often strike deep into the heart of mid-life anxiety; he calls the bed 'a preparation of death.' But The One Day isn't all despair, it is also about a life worth living: 'Work, love, build a house, and die. But build a house.'
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - Stunning
Hall takes a single thread, aging, and observes it from all angles, male, female, depression, esctasy, violence, anger and happiness. Man is compared with history, nature and Greek tragedy. But don't get put off by the grande themes, this is a very readeable and enjoyable book for anyone who likes to read.
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