The Best Day the Worst Day: Life with Jane Kenyon
- ISBN-10
- 0547346980
- ISBN-13
- 9780547346984
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 272
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2006-11-08
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Author
- Donald Hall
Description
A candid memoir of love, art, and grief from a celebrated man of letters, United States poet laureate Donald Hall In an intimate record of his twenty-three-year marriage to poet Jane Kenyon, Donald Hall recounts the rich pleasures and the unforeseen trials of their shared life. The couple made a home at their New England farmhouse, where they rejoiced in rituals of writing, gardening, caring for pets, and connecting with their rural community through friends and church. The Best Day the Worst Day presents a portrait of the inner moods of "the best marriage I know about," as Hall has written, against the stark medical emergency of Jane's leukemia, which ended her life in fifteen months. Between recollections of better times, Hall shares with readers the daily ordeal of Jane's dying through heartbreaking but ultimately inspiring storytelling.
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- 2005
- 258 pages
- Paperback
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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- 2005
- 258 pages
- Paperback
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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