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The shaping of a literary life

N.H. laureate explores forces behind his work

Former US poet laureate Donald Hall at his home in Wilmot, N.H. Former US poet laureate Donald Hall at his home in Wilmot, N.H. (Tony Cenicola/The New York Times)
By Floyd Skloot
October 5, 2008

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Unpacking the Boxes: A Memoir of a Life in Poetry By Donald Hall Houghton Mifflin, 195 pp., $24 Donald Hall at 80 is widely admired for his poetry, winner of the 1988 National Book Critics Circle Award, among others, and a former US poet laureate. Hall also has been a longtime public figure in the world of poetry as a ... (Full article: 830 words)

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