Prolific, Painfully Candid Ex-Poet Laureate Donald Hall Dies

Donald Hall, a prolific, award-winning poet and man of letters widely admired for his sharp humor and painful candor about nature, mortality, baseball and the distant past, has died at age 89. Hall's daughter, Philippa Smith, confirmed Sunday that her father died Saturday at his home in Wilmot, New Hampshire, after being in hospice care for some time.  "He's really quite amazingly versatile," said Hall's long-time friend Mike Pride, the editor emeritus of the...

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