Without

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.

Year

1998

Language

English

Publisher

Mariner Books

Editions

4

Pages

96

ISBN

9780395957653

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