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That One Day

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Original title
  
The One Day

Pages
  
80

Author
  
Donald Hall

Genre
  
Poetry

Media type
  
Print

Originally published
  
1988

Page count
  
80

ISBN
  
0899198163

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Awards
  
National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry

Similar
  
Donald Hall books, American poetry books

The One Day by Donald Hall is a book-length poem.

Contents

Synopsis

The book is composed of three parts--"Shrubs Burnt Away," "Four Classic Texts" and "To Build a House", employing a 10-line stanza with variable line length in an experimental form. It centers on mid-life anxiety, using phrases like "a preparation of death." It is not completely dark and despairing, as it focuses on how to make a life worth living, instructing readers to: "Work, love, build a house, and die. But build a house."

Awards and Acclaim

  • Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry (1988)
  • "Its passion and urgency are rare and remarkable." - The Washington Post
  • "...the concept of middle age is explored with fresh insight and expressed in brilliant turns of phrase." - Publishers Weekly.

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