Thank you. "Without" was an enormous help to me when I had lost my own wife to cancer (that's 31 years ago now). Later, I think in his last year, I had the honor of sitting at his feet in his living room during a reading he gave there for a small group of poets. Blessed memories!
I corresponded with Hall a few years before he passed...he always responded. I enjoyed his prose more, "String Too Short To Be Saved" a favorite. "The Best Day The Worst Day" about Jane's illness and hospital trips, eventual passing is very moving. He certainly had a way with words. He & Jane are interred at the Proctor Cemetery in Andover, I stop to say hello often.
Oh what a sweet, yet sad, story. I remember reading the OxCart Msn to my children when they were young.
Thank you. "Without" was an enormous help to me when I had lost my own wife to cancer (that's 31 years ago now). Later, I think in his last year, I had the honor of sitting at his feet in his living room during a reading he gave there for a small group of poets. Blessed memories!
I was at that reading in Concord. It was during my time of working at the New Hampshire Writers Project.
I corresponded with Hall a few years before he passed...he always responded. I enjoyed his prose more, "String Too Short To Be Saved" a favorite. "The Best Day The Worst Day" about Jane's illness and hospital trips, eventual passing is very moving. He certainly had a way with words. He & Jane are interred at the Proctor Cemetery in Andover, I stop to say hello often.
And he had the additional honor (so to speak) of having "Ox Cart Man" being adapted for TV on an episode of "Reading Rainbow".