The Museum of Clear Ideas

“With The One Day , this is his best work, a modest, skeptical, and brave poetry that embodies something essential about this late American century.” — Harvard Review This is Donald Hall’s most advanced work, extending his poetic reach even beyond his recent volumes. Conflict dominates this book, and conflict unites it. Hall takes poetry as an instrument for revelation, whether in an elegy for a (fictional) contemporary poet, or in the title series of poems, whose form imitates the first book of