Author

Publication

1998 - Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston, Massachusetts

Language

English

Word Count

20,250 words, Guess

Page Count

81 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • LibraryThing14079
  • Goodreads1293670

Classifications

  • DDC811/.54
  • LCCPS3515.A3152 W58 1998

Description

The dying of a beloved wife and fellow poet makes for a bleak and lonely tale. But Donald Hall's poignant and courageous poetry, facing that dread fact, involves us all: the magnificent, humorous, and gifted woman, Jane Kenyon, who suffered and died; the doctors and nurses who tried but failed to save her; the neighbors, friends, and relatives who grieved for her; the husband who sat by her while she lived and afterward sat in their house alone with his pain, self-pity, and fury; and those of us who until now had nothing to do with it.

First Sentence

Daybreak until nightfall, he sat by his wife at the hospital as the chemotherapy dripped into the catheter in her heart.

Excerpt

Daybreak until nightfall, he sat by his wife at the hospital as the chemotherapy dripped into the catheter in her heart.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Without: poemsHoughton Mifflin Co.1998-01-01

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