Poet. She was an American poet of the 20th century and New Hampshire's poet laureate at the time of her untimely death at age forty-seven from leukemia. She earned both her BA and MA from the University of Michigan, where she met her husband Donald Hall, noted poet. The couple settled on the Hall family farm in New Hampshire. She translated from Russian the "Twenty Poems of Anna Akhmatova," and compiled four volumes of her poetry during her lifetime in "From Room to Room," "The Boat of Quiet Hours," "Let Evening Come," and "Constance." A collection of her prose writing and translations was also published posthumously as "A Hundred White Daffodils: Essays, Interviews, the Akhmatova Translations, Newspaper Columns, and One Poem" in 1999, her "Collected Poems" appeared in 2007, and "Otherwise: New and Selected Poems" in 1996, a posthumous collection containing twenty poems written just prior to her death.
Poet. She was an American poet of the 20th century and New Hampshire's poet laureate at the time of her untimely death at age forty-seven from leukemia. She earned both her BA and MA from the University of Michigan, where she met her husband Donald Hall, noted poet. The couple settled on the Hall family farm in New Hampshire. She translated from Russian the "Twenty Poems of Anna Akhmatova," and compiled four volumes of her poetry during her lifetime in "From Room to Room," "The Boat of Quiet Hours," "Let Evening Come," and "Constance." A collection of her prose writing and translations was also published posthumously as "A Hundred White Daffodils: Essays, Interviews, the Akhmatova Translations, Newspaper Columns, and One Poem" in 1999, her "Collected Poems" appeared in 2007, and "Otherwise: New and Selected Poems" in 1996, a posthumous collection containing twenty poems written just prior to her death.
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