Donald Hall

Donald Hall was born September 20, 1928 and grew up in Hamden, Connecticut. While Hall’s young life was difficult because of his father’s volatility, Hall credits his parents for influencing his reading at a young

Names of Horses

by Donald Hall (1928–2018)

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All winter your brute shoulders strained against collars, padding

and steerhide over the ash hames, to haul

sledges of cordwood for drying through spring and summer,

for the Glenwood stove next winter, and for the simmering range.

In April you pulled cartloads of manure to spread on the fields,

dark manure of Holsteins, and knobs of your own clustered with oats.

All summer you mowed the grass in meadow and hayfield, the mowing machine

clacketing beside you, while the sun walked high in the morning;

and after noon's heat, you pulled a clawed rake through the same acres,

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September 20

Donald Hall born, 1928

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Who claimed that after Pablo Picasso's death, he would be best known as a poet --that encyclopedia entries would read: "Picasso, Pablo Ruiz: Spanish poet who dabbled in painting, drawing and sculpture."

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Picasso made this claim about himself.

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