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H. Palmer Hall

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in Beaumont, Texas, The United States

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http://library.stmarytx.edu/palmer

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Poetry, Literature & Fiction, Nonfiction

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Almost every poet I have ever read

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H. Palmer Hall was born in Beaumont, Texas, during World War II and spent most of his formative years in that city between the Big Thicket and the Gulf Coast. He was a Vietnamese interpreter/translator in the Army and spent the 1967-1968 war year in what was then South Vietnam. After returning from Vietnam, he worked for the National Security Agency (NSA) before being denied access to the Agency for marching in anti-war marches and signing a petition of 1,000+ active-duty soldiers opposed to the war. That petition appeared in The New York Times just before the great anti-war marches in Washington in the fall of 1969.
Hall is the editor/publisher of Pecan Grove Press, a small press operating out of St. Mary's University. His poems, short sto ...more

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Average rating: 4.44 · 9 ratings · 4 reviews · 12 distinct works

	Foreign and Domestic it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2009	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Reflections on Writing, Publishing & Other Things 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2003	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Into the Thicket 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2011	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	To Wake Again it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2005	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rites of Spring really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1997	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Coming To Terms liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2007 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	The Librarian in the University: Essays on Membership in the Academic Community by H. Palmer Hall (Goodreads Author), Caroline Byrd (Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1990	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia, and Beyond

by Tina Chang

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H. Hall said: " I have been dipping into a massive new book of poetry called Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia and Beyond. It is a major piece of scholarship with poets representing close to 60 countries and more than 45 lang I have been dipping into a massive new book of poetry called Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia and Beyond. It is a major piece of scholarship with poets representing close to 60 countries and more than 45 languages. But it is not a book that you would want to just sit down and read; instead, it is more of a reference book so that if you are curious about whether there is a decent poet from, say, Qatar, you can poke around and find a few. The book does let us know the "good news"--that poetry is alive and being written everywhere, that in some way, it remains vital. But beyond that, I cannot say that the book is much more than an exercise in naming...not that naming is not itself a great good thing, naming was, for those of us who read Genesis, the first great injunction to mankind. But naming is about as far as a book this ambitious can go: a name, a country identification, a sample poem.

If nothing else, it does give you that name. And so, I read a poem by K. Satchidanandan, an Indian poet who translated his own poem, "Stammer," and I think the poem is excellent. One stanza says that "Stammer is the silence that falls / between the word and its meaning, / just as lameness is the / silence that falls between / the word and the deed." I'm curious and read the rest of the poem and get to the final stanza: "God too must have stammered / when He created Man. / That is why all the words of man / carry different meanings. / That is why everything he utters / from his prayers to his commands / stammers, / like poetry." But if I like the poem, and I do, I have to go somewhere else to read more poetry by K. Satchidanandan, for this anthology is more of a directory of world poets than a collection of poems.

It is a massive undertaking by its editors, Tina Chang, Nathalie Handal and Ravi Shankar, but needs to be appreciated for what it is and not for what it is not. Ultimately, it is something of a taxonomy of world poets and not a collection of poems--though it does collect poems. As such, it is a valuable contribution to the world of poetry reference. I cannot, quite honestly, picture even the most avid readers of poetry sitting down with the book and just reading it as they might read, for example, an anthology like In a Fine Frenzy, poems based upon the works of Shakespeare. Language for a New Century is too massive for that,. too intricate and too broad at the same time.

It is, finally, an important book for what it does and, yes, what it does is important. So, buy the book as a reference book for your collection and as a guide that can lead you to works by poets you may not have heard of but who, as you taste this Whitman sampler of contemporary world poetry, are worth tasting in more than a simple nibble. ...more "

Jun 12, 2008 10:02AM · see review

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Women of the Beat Generation: The Writers, Artists and Muses at the Heart of a Revolution

by Brenda Knight (Goodreads Author)

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H. Hall said: " Women of the Beat Generation is essential reading for anyone who is intrigued by Beat writing. Most of the material is a combination of biographical and creative work by the women who hung out with, made love to, served as muses for the male writers ...more "

Apr 22, 2008 07:29AM · see review