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teaching entirely,and movedto a New Hampshire farm to spend all histime writing.It was the place hisgreat-grandfather farmed from 1865 to1913,where his grandmother and hismother were born,the place where Hallspent his boyhood summers haying andwriting his first poems.  \nAs he approaches fifty,returned to hisorigins,his work shows yet more power.These new,long poems illuminate theconnections between the generations,andthe enduring connections of people toeach other,to their land,and to theirheritage.  \n3.50  \nnet  \n广T  \n2N  \ncOpYNO  \n3  \nArts CouncilOF GREAT BRITAIN  \nARTS COUNCILPOETRY LIBRARYFirst Floor g Long AcreCovent GardenLondon WC2E 9LHTelephone oI-3796597  \nOpen Tuesday to Saturday 10-5 Friday Io-7 Closed MondaysBooks may be renewed by telephone  \nDate due back  \n\n| 4JUN 1980  \u003Cbr>-7 DEC 198  \u003Cbr>22 JU.1983  \u003Cbr>20 MAD 198  \u003Cbr>1 DEC isdi  \u003Cbr>.6 FEB 1998  \u003Cbr>26 JUL 1998  \u003Cbr>25Aug1998  \u003Cbr>个DEC19   | 2  \u003Cbr>7  \u003Cbr>87   |\n| --- | --- |\n\n-2111p  \nKicking the Leaves  \nBy the same author  \n# Poetry\n\nExiles and Marriages  \nThe Dark Houses  \nA Roof of Tiger Lilies  \nThe Alligator Bride  \nThe Yellow Room  \nThe Town of Hill  \nA Blue Wing Tilts at the Edge of the Sea  \n# Prose\n\nString Too Short to Be Saved  \nHenry Moore  \nWriting Well  \nDock Ellis:In the Country of Baseball  \nGoatfoot Milktongue Twinbird  \nRemembering Poets:Reminiscences and Opinions  \nKicking the LeavesDonald Hall  \nFirst published in England 1979 byMartin Secker &Warburg Limited54 Poland Street,London W1V 3DF  \nCopyright ◎1978 by Donald Hall  \n436190729  \nFor Jane Kenyon  \nAcknowledgments  \nGrateful acknowledgment is made for permission to reprint some of thepoems that appeared in The American Poetry Review,Green House,Grove,Harvard Magazine,The Iowa Review,The New York Times,Ohio Review,and The Virginia Quarterly Review.  \n“Photographs of China”originally appeared in The American Review.  \n“Flies”originally appeared in the Country Journal.Reprinted bypermission of the Country Journal Publishing Company,Brattleboro,Vermont.  \n“Ox Cart Man”and\"Names of Horses”◎1977 The New YorkerMagazine,Inc.","cbCaidnL4e6Bu6p2","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaidnL4e6Bu6p2","pdf",1884320,56,"English","# Kicking the Leaves\n## Poems","[{\"question\":\"What change did Donald Hall make that shaped Kicking the Leaves?\",\"answer\":\"He left university teaching in the mid-1970s and moved to a New Hampshire farm to devote his time to writing.\"},{\"question\":\"What themes do the long poems emphasize as Hall nears fifty?\",\"answer\":\"They highlight connections between generations and the lasting bonds among people, their land, and their heritage.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the book connect Hall’s writing to his family background?\",\"answer\":\"The farm is described as the family land where ancestors farmed and where Hall spent his boyhood summers haying and writing his first 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