Best Day the Worst Day（ISBN=） 英文原版

A candid memoir of love, art, and grief from a celebrated man of
letters, United States poet laureate Donald Hall. In an intimate
record of his twenty-three-year marriage to poet Jane Kenyon,
Donald Hall recounts the rich pleasures and the unforeseen trials
of their shared life. The couple made a home at their New England
farmhouse, where they rejoiced in rituals of writing, gardening,
caring for pets, and connecting with their rural community through
friends and church. The Best Day the Worst Day presents a portrait
of the inner moods of “the best marriage I know about,” as Hall has
written, against the stark medical emergency of Jane’s leukemia,
which ended her life in fifteen months. Between recollections of
better times, Hall shares with readers the daily ordeal of Jane’s
dying through heartbreaking but ultimately inspiring
storytelling.

Donald Hall is the fourteenth poet laureate of the United States
and the author of more than two dozen books of poems and prose,
including White Apples and the Taste of Stone: Selected
Poems 1946–2006. His work has garnered many honors, among them
the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Los Angeles Times
Book Prize in poetry for The One Day; the Lenore Marshall
Award for The Happy Man; the Robert Frost Silver Medal from
the Poetry Society of America for Old and New Poems; and the
prestigious Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize in recognition of his lifetime
accomplishments. His poetry collection Without, which was
written for Jane Kenyon during and after her illness, received the
L. L. Winship/PEN New England Award and was a finalist for the Los
Angeles Times Book Prize. A member of the American Academy of Arts
and Letters, Hall continues to inhabit the New Hampshire farmhouse
where he and Jane Kenyon lived together. 

The Funeral Party
To Eagle Pond
The Plaid Notebook
The Grandmother Poem
Terror and Delight
Animals Inside the House
The Village Saved Destroyed
The Third Thing
Pill Hill
The Soul’s Bliss and Suffering
Day Zero Zero
Coming and Going
Spring Street
1993.
The Best Day the Worst Day
The Caldecott Room
Eleven Days
Postscript 2005