Tuesday, May 16, 2006

News at Eleven: The piece is only nine

lines long, but one was missing for 17 years until the perfect words arrived in the poet’s mind: "white apples and the taste of stone." [Donald] Hall liked its sound enough to name the poem "White Apples" and make the entire missing line the book’s title.

from Portsmouth Herald Accent: Donald Hall's 'White Apples and the Taste of Stone' chronicles 60 years of poetry

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