Donald Hall, A Poet Laureate Of The Rural Life, Is Dead At 89

DAVID KIRBY, New York Times: Obituaries
Sun, 06/24/2018 - 10:56am

The prolific Mr. Hall was also a memoirist, an essayist and a children’s book author, not to mention a passionate Red Sox fan who wrote two books on baseball.

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