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Unpacking the Boxes.(Brief article)(Book review)

The New Yorker

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Most memoirs begin with a birth, but Hall's starts with another sort of becoming: "At fourteen I decided to spend my life writing poetry, which is what I have done." Soon Hall moves from suburban Connecticut, where "nothing happened," to Exeter, Harvard, and Oxford, his time line marked indelibly by books and illnesses. Hall's direct tone softens the extraordinariness of his life. Frank O'Hara, John Ashbery, and Adrienne Rich are school chums; literary successes, such ...

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