Donald Hall

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Donald Hall was an American poet and writer who served as Poet Laureate of the United States, known for his essays about rural New England life.

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A Hundred Thousand Straightened Nails

Hall's elegy for his New Hampshire grandfather, who saved every piece of hardware from demolition — a portrait of Yankee thrift that is also a meditation on what we keep and why.

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A Hundred Thousand Straightened Nails

Hall's elegy for his New Hampshire grandfather, who saved every piece of hardware from demolition — a portrait of Yankee thrift that is also a meditation on what we keep and why.

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