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Life Work
The revered American Poet Laureate reflects on the meaning of work, solitude, and love with âextraordinary nobility and wisdomâ (The New York Times)
When Donald Hall moved to his grandparentsâ New Hampshire farm in 1975, his work as a writer and a life devoted to the literary arts must have seemed remote from the harsh physical labor of his ancestors. However, he reveals a similar kind of artistry in the lives of his grandparents, Kate and Wesley. From them, he learned that the devotion to craftâbe it canning vegetables, writing poems, or carting manureâcreates its own special discipline and an âabsorbednessâ that no wage can compensate.
In this âsustained meditation on work as the key to personal happinessâ (Los Angeles Times), we see how the writer has modeled his own life on his familyâs lives of work, solitude, and love. When Hall comes face to face with his own mortality halfway through writing this book, we understand both his obsession with work and its ultimate consolation.
When Donald Hall moved to his grandparentsâ New Hampshire farm in 1975, his work as a writer and a life devoted to the literary arts must have seemed remote from the harsh physical labor of his ancestors. However, he reveals a similar kind of artistry in the lives of his grandparents, Kate and Wesley. From them, he learned that the devotion to craftâbe it canning vegetables, writing poems, or carting manureâcreates its own special discipline and an âabsorbednessâ that no wage can compensate.
In this âsustained meditation on work as the key to personal happinessâ (Los Angeles Times), we see how the writer has modeled his own life on his familyâs lives of work, solitude, and love. When Hall comes face to face with his own mortality halfway through writing this book, we understand both his obsession with work and its ultimate consolation.
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The revered American Poet Laureate reflects on the meaning of work, solitude, and love with âextraordinary nobility and wisdomâ (The New York Times)
When Donald Hall moved to his grandparentsâ New Hampshire farm in 1975, his work as a writer and a life devoted to the literary arts must have seemed remote from the harsh physical labor of his ancestors. However, he reveals a similar kind of artistry in the lives of his grandparents, Kate and Wesley. From them, he learned that the devotion to craftâbe it canning vegetables, writing poems, or carting manureâcreates its own special discipline and an âabsorbednessâ that no wage can compensate.
In this âsustained meditation on work as the key to personal happinessâ (Los Angeles Times), we see how the writer has modeled his own life on his familyâs lives of work, solitude, and love. When Hall comes face to face with his own mortality halfway through writing this book, we understand both his obsession with work and its ultimate consolation.
When Donald Hall moved to his grandparentsâ New Hampshire farm in 1975, his work as a writer and a life devoted to the literary arts must have seemed remote from the harsh physical labor of his ancestors. However, he reveals a similar kind of artistry in the lives of his grandparents, Kate and Wesley. From them, he learned that the devotion to craftâbe it canning vegetables, writing poems, or carting manureâcreates its own special discipline and an âabsorbednessâ that no wage can compensate.
In this âsustained meditation on work as the key to personal happinessâ (Los Angeles Times), we see how the writer has modeled his own life on his familyâs lives of work, solitude, and love. When Hall comes face to face with his own mortality halfway through writing this book, we understand both his obsession with work and its ultimate consolation.
