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| Preface | ||
| The Unsayable Said | 1 | |
| Death to the Death of Poetry | 7 | |
| Metallic Flowers | 15 | |
| The Expression without the Song | 20 | |
| The Vatic Voice | 27 | |
| Goatfoot, Milktongue, Twinbird | 31 | |
| Journal Notes | 41 | |
| Marvell's Manyness | 59 | |
| Long Robinson | 70 | |
| Robert Frost Corrupted | 81 | |
| Pound's Sounds | 100 | |
| Kenneth Rexroth | 106 | |
| James Wright: Lament for a Maker | 115 | |
| William Carlos Williams and the Visual | 132 | |
| Pythagoras, Form, and Free Verse | 138 | |
| Notes on the Image | 143 | |
| Theory x Theory | 147 | |
| Poetry and Ambition | 154 | |
| Polonius's Advice to Young Poets | 171 | |
| Starting and Keeping On | 175 | |
| Hall's Index | 180 | |
| Size and Scale | 187 | |
| Naming the Skin | 190 | |
| On Moving One's Lips, While Reading | 206 | |
| The Way to Say Pleasure | 211 |
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James Fulton
reviewed Breakfast Served Any Time All Day: Essays on Poetry New and Selected on June 16, 2007
Breakfast Served Any Time All Day: Essays on Poetry New and Selected
Donald Hall is like a cantankerous old cow chewing on its cud. To avoid any misunderstandings, let me emphasize that this is a highly poetic cow, and the cud is, of course, language. When he writes, in his wonderful new collection of essays on poetry, Breakfast Served Any Time All Day, that poetry is all about the "mouth-pleasure, the muscle-pleasure," you can't help but imagine his jaw turning over and over.
"Anybody knows that the word food fills no bellies," Hall says, "but the word food is for chewing on all the same: ef that sets lip to tooth, ou that rounds the lips as if for kissing, deh that smacks tongue onto mouth-top. The word carries no calories but in a receptive mouth the juices flow."
Poetry, in other words, is not sound, but the making of sound. It's not love; it's sex. (And writing is like orgasm, moans the 76-year-old Hall at one point'only it takes longer.)
Read my full review here:
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Add Breakfast Served Any Time All Day: Essays on Poetry New and Selected, Breakfast Served Any Time All Day collects forty years of writings on poetry in one essential volume by master of American letters Donald Hall. Praise for Breakfast Served: . . . the essays in this book are engaging, passionate, stran, Breakfast Served Any Time All Day: Essays on Poetry New and Selected to the inventory that you are selling on WonderClubX
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Add Breakfast Served Any Time All Day: Essays on Poetry New and Selected, Breakfast Served Any Time All Day collects forty years of writings on poetry in one essential volume by master of American letters Donald Hall. Praise for Breakfast Served: . . . the essays in this book are engaging, passionate, stran, Breakfast Served Any Time All Day: Essays on Poetry New and Selected to your collection on WonderClub |