A review by bramblebox
Death to the Death of Poetry: Essays, Reviews, Notes, Interviews by Donald Hall

2.0

Hall starts this book with interesting ideas that pull contemplation - but even before hitting the middle it becomes teeth grindingly boring. Even reading this book on a curve due to the outdated notions, it trickles & tumbles quickly into the same stories over & over of an old school boys club of poets. Only a fourth or so of this book is about poetry, the rest is simply a memory album that is without unique merits, bloated with stories of parties & pain. This book reads like a elder frat brother telling the tallest tales of his & his buddies since faded importance to new pledges. ( & frankly, i wouldn’t even bother accepting the bid )