Donald Hall's invaluable record of the making of a poet begins with
his childhood in Depression-era suburban Connecticut, where as the
doted-upon son of dramatically thwarted parents he first realized
poetry was 'secret, dangerous, wicked, and delicious'. Hall
eloquently writes of the poetry and books that moved and formed him
as a child and young man, and of adolescent efforts at poetry
writing - an endeavor he wryly describes as more hormonal than
artistic. His painful, formative days at Exeter are followed by a
poetic self-liberation of sorts at Harvard and in the post-war
university scene at Oxford. After a failed first marriage Hall
meets and marries Jane Kenyon, and the two poets return to Eagle
Pond. Fittingly, the family home that loomed large in Hall's
childhood is where he grows old, and at eighty learns finally 'to
live in the moment - as you have been told to do all your life'.
"Unpacking the Boxes" is a revelatory and tremendously poignant
memoir of one man's life in poetry.
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