has always had this elemental power--to vividly evoke his particular New England climate and geography so that it can't be mistaken for any other--but what is more unexpected in this new collection of poems, his 16th, is passion. Eros and the particulars of skin-on-skin are found on nearly every page. Furtive teens in "After Prom" pause to think of "parents, preachers, pregnancy" before plunging in; the poem "Nymph and Shepherd" recalls the metaphor of orgasm as a little death--le petit mort--in its opening line: "She died a dozen times before I died."from Los Angeles Times: Donald Hall's poems in 'The Back Chamber'
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