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Without: Poems Paperback – April 14, 1999

by Donald Hall (Author)
4.7 out of 5 stars 125 ratings
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Donald Hall's poignant and courageous poetry speaks of the death of the magnificent, humorous, and gifted Jane Kenyon. Hall speaks to us all of grief, as a poet lamenting the death of a poet, as a husband mourning the loss of a wife. Without is Hall's greatest and most honorable achievement-his gift and testimony, his lament and his celebration of loss and of love.

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  6. ISBN-13
    978-0395957653
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DONALD HALL (1928-2018) served as poet laureate of the United States from 2006 to 2007. He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a recipient of the National Medal of the Arts, awarded by the president.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Ecco; First Edition (April 14, 1999)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 96 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0395957656
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0395957653
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.24 x 9 inches
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Customers find the poems heartfelt and profoundly beautiful, with one review noting how they provide a clear-eyed look at emotional warfare. The book receives positive feedback for its honesty, particularly in its portrayal of death and separation. Customers have mixed reactions to the emotional content, with some finding it comforting while others describe it as heartbreaking.

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17 customers mention "Poetry quality"17 positive0 negative

Customers praise the poetry in the book, describing it as heartfelt, poignant, and profoundly beautiful, with one customer noting how it provides a clear-eyed look at emotional warfare.

"...trauma of the ensuing months is never spoken of, but Hall has written beautiful and honest poetry to help us open up and really feel that time...." Read more

"...They're heavy but never ponderous. There's a wonderful elegance here, a brevity that makes this book something that pretty much any reader can..." Read more

"A powerful jumble of poems (sometimes called "letters" in Hall's parlance) re-experiencing the death of his younger lover, conscious always that he "..." Read more

"...From beginning to end, this collection of poems is a poignant account of the emotions as Hall witnesses his wife's slow decline...." Read more

3 customers mention "Honesty"3 positive0 negative

Customers appreciate the book's honesty, with one review specifically mentioning its portrayal of death and separation.

"Emotionally hard to read, but brutally honest and necessary." Read more

"Heartbreaking, honest, and beautiful. Hall is one of my favorites." Read more

"Without brings the gift of clarity and honesty to death and separation...." Read more

10 customers mention "Heartbreaking"6 positive4 negative

Customers have mixed reactions to the emotional content of the book, with some finding it deeply moving and others describing it as emotionally hard to read.

"I love this book for the way it portrays loss and grief." Read more

"...Poignant detail and when maudlin, appropriately so. Utterly heartbreaking and yet funny, aS when Hall and his dog Gus hike up to her grave and he..." Read more

"How Donald Hall manages to capture the pain, fear, loneliness, and desolation of losing someone you love, all the while doing it with honesty, grace..." Read more

"Emotionally hard to read, but brutally honest and necessary." Read more

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  • L. Bouche
    5.0 out of 5 stars Comforting Solace for Loss of a Spouse
    Reviewed in the United States on July 8, 2018
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    I lost my husband of 34 years last year to cancer, and when Donald Hall died recently I learned that he had suffered the same loss. It has been clear to me for awhile that for me there have been two distinct parts of the loss. One has been the obvious and immense emptiness left without my soulmate. But the other is traumatic and different. It is that time when my husband was ill and I was trying to both care for him and keep him with me against all odds. This gem of a book speaks to both our long life together plus the months of impending loss and increasing illness. To me, the shock of hearing the diagnosis and the trauma of the ensuing months is never spoken of, but Hall has written beautiful and honest poetry to help us open up and really feel that time. And now I am navigating life without him, and Hall's poetry shows me that I am not alone.
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  • Michael Meyerhofer
    5.0 out of 5 stars Grief Made Beautiful
    Reviewed in the United States on May 28, 2014
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    These poems--simple, accessible, profoundly beautiful--do much to illustrate just how much can be accomplished with well-wrought language. If you're reading this, you're probably already familiar with the subject matter of these poems. If not, though, know that these poems almost exclusively deal with the dying--and death--of Hall's wife from cancer. They're heavy but never ponderous. There's a wonderful elegance here, a brevity that makes this book something that pretty much any reader can relate to. I was already familiar with Donald Hall's work but this book is in a league all its own. In my opinion, it's the finest work of Hall's illustrious career.
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  • Scott&Scott (aka Romentics)
    4.0 out of 5 stars Mourning
    Reviewed in the United States on August 4, 2018
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    A powerful jumble of poems (sometimes called "letters" in Hall's parlance) re-experiencing the death of his younger lover, conscious always that he "should" have died before her. Poignant detail and when maudlin, appropriately so. Utterly heartbreaking and yet funny, aS when Hall and his dog Gus hike up to her grave and he feels the need to specify which of the two pissed on her tombstone.
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  • Dogbreath077
    5.0 out of 5 stars Good Deal.
    Reviewed in the United States on June 21, 2024
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  • HeyHay
    5.0 out of 5 stars Left me speechless
    Reviewed in the United States on February 4, 2012
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    I was raised reading Emily Dickinson and Anne Sexton. I ordered this collection of poetry based on the recommendation of a friend. I can honestly say that I have never been more pleased with a poet since I fell in love with the magnified sorrow of Sylvia Plath. From beginning to end, this collection of poems is a poignant account of the emotions as Hall witnesses his wife's slow decline. This is a must read for anyone who claims to be an expert of poetry.
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  • Michael Koehler
    5.0 out of 5 stars For anyone who is dealing with grief
    Reviewed in the United States on March 13, 2022
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    I love this book for the way it portrays loss and grief.
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  • myra rolfes
    5.0 out of 5 stars Grief and true love
    Reviewed in the United States on November 20, 2021
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    An intense record of the poet’s long grief watching his true love lose the battle with cancer, I sent this to a friend who recently lost her partner to cancer, in case she needed to spend time with someone who understands.
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  • M. Amani
    5.0 out of 5 stars beautiful and heartwrenching
    Reviewed in the United States on July 10, 2015
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    How Donald Hall manages to capture the pain, fear, loneliness, and desolation of losing someone you love, all the while doing it with honesty, grace, and lyricism is testimony to his deep love and noble spirit, and his poetic genius. This book is a gift to the reader...
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  • andrew rawlinson
    4.0 out of 5 stars love and death
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 25, 2015
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    These poems are about the illness and death of Hall's wife, Jane. They are free verse in the best sense - like clear water with nothing to make it coloured or sweet or bubbly. This water flows clearly, too. It follows the contours of the death of his wife including all the boulders and pebbles, the mud and the weeds, the sweep and the fall.

    This poetry uses no devices but it is poetic in its sensibility. It captures something inherently ungraspable: what it is to lose someone you love. And more: what it is to go through such a loss with its blood-oxygen numbers and Total Body Irradiation and vomit. Plus that which goes beyond all of that.

    "When she no longer spoke, they lay alone together, touching, and she fixed on him her beautiful enormous round brown eyes, shining, unblinking, and passionate with love and dread."

    It is all given and it is all taken away.
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