Reviews for White Apples and the Taste of Stone: Selected Poems 1946-2006

The average rating for White Apples and the Taste of Stone: Selected Poems 1946-2006 based on 2 reviews is 5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2019-03-22 00:00:00 Markus Kirschner It feels odd to find old reviews I wrote of people who are now dead. And odd to think of Hall, a great elegist, dead. This big Selected Poems was later replaced by a much more streamlined Selected, and that was probably rights. Still, I like the sheer size of this book. Here's a thing I wrote about it 10 years ago:

Review # 2 was written on 2011-03-17 00:00:00 Stewart Jotham Lingered over this one and listened to the CD of Donald Hall reading his poems. So much beauty here. "Names of Horses" and "Great Day in the Cow's House" are two of my all-time favorites -- remind me of why I write poems.