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The Best Day The Worst Day: Life with Jane Kenyon
Donald Hall
Houghton Mifflin
May 2005
On Sale: May 1, 2005
272 pages
ISBN: 0618478019
EAN: 9780618478019
Hardcover
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Fiction Poetry
Donald Hall's celebrated book of poems "Without" was written
for his wife, Jane Kenyon, who died in 1995, Hall returns to
this powerful territory in "The Best Day The Worst Day", a
work of prose that is equally "a work of art, love and
generous genius." (Boston Globe) Jane Kenyon was nineteen
years younger than Donald Hall and a student poet at the
University of Michigan when they met. Hall was her teacher.
This book is an intimate record of their twenty-three year
marriage at Eagle Pond Farm - of their shared rituals of
writing, close attention to pets and gardening, and love in
the afternoon. Hall joyfully records Jane Kenyon's growing
power as a poet and the couple's careful accomodations
toward each other as writers. This portrait of the inner
moods of "the best marriage I know about" as Hall has
written, is laid against the stark medical emergency of
Jane's leukemia, which ended her life in fifteen months.
Hall shares with readers - as if we were one of the grieving
neighbours, friends and relatives - the daily ordeal of
Jane's dying, through heart-breaking and generous storytelling.
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