Donald Hall - Between Solitude and Loneliness

[Cadiz]

Powerful, the last paragraph especially:

Between Solitude and Loneliness

Now and then, especially at night, solitude loses its soft power and loneliness takes over. I am grateful when solitude returns.

www.newyorker.com

American author DonaldHall.

 

[Paul Whybrow]

Thank you for posting this, Cadiz. Donald Hall wrote poems in a direct way, as the tone of the article indicates. I like his poem The Stump, in which he mourns the death of an oak tree. His marriage to Jane Kenyon sounds like an ideal union.

And, he loved cats.