From the Publisher: White Apples and the Taste of Stone is the definitive lifetime work of an American master-with a bound-in audio CD of selections read by the author. One of the most significant poets of his generation, Donald Hall has garnered numerous accolades and honors, including the Frost Medal from the Poetry Society of America, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. White Apples and the Taste of Stone collects more than two hundred poems from across sixty years of Hall's celebrated career, with new poems recently published in The New Yorker, the American Poetry Review, and the New York Times. Greatly anticipated, this is Hall's first selected volume in fifteen years, and also the first to include poems from his seminal bestseller, Without. The bound-in audio CD was specially recorded by Hall for this publication-more than an hour of favorite poems from throughout the book. Hall's distinctive, sonorous voice and inimitable humor provide a perfect companion for fans of his work and for classroom use.

"A Mariner Book." Accompanying CD contains a selection of poems read by the author. Includes index.

1: Early Poems -- Old home day -- Love is like sounds -- Wedding party -- Exile -- Exile (1968) -- Elegy for Wesley Wells -- My son my executioner -- Sleeping giant -- Je Suis une Table -- Dancers -- By the Exeter River -- T R -- Hole -- Religious articles -- Foundations of American Industry -- Cops and robbers -- Sestina -- Waiting on the corners -- Marat's death -- Kiss -- Between the clock and the bed -- Christ Church Meadows, Oxford -- Christmas Eve in Whitneyville -- 2: Musk Ox -- Long River -- Snow -- Farm -- Moon -- Child -- Poem -- Wells -- Airstrip in England, 1960 -- New Hampshire -- Self-portrait as a bear -- Orange knee socks -- Sleeping -- King and queen -- Reclining figure -- Digging -- Pilot of 1918 -- Letter to an English poet -- Stump -- In the kitchen of the old house -- Days -- Swan -- Man in the dead machine -- 3: I Am The Fox -- Alligator bride -- Sew -- Coal fire -- Blue wing -- Woolworth's -- Repeated shapes -- Crewcuts -- Tall women -- Table -- Mount Kearsarge -- Young watch us -- Gold -- Waters -- Nose -- Stones -- Dump -- High pasture -- Green shelf -- Adultery at forty -- To a waterfowl -- Fete -- Eleanor's letters -- Raisin -- Town of hill -- White apples -- 4: Root Cellar -- Maple syrup -- Toy bone -- O cheese -- Kicking the leaves -- Eating the pig -- Wolf knife -- On reaching the age of two hundred -- Flies -- Ox cart man -- Stone walls -- Old roses -- Traffic -- 5: Lady Ghost -- Black-faced sheep -- Names of horses -- Great day in the cows' house -- Henyard round -- New animals -- Scenic view -- Old timers' day -- Baseball players -- Granite and grass -- Sister on the tracks -- Sister by the pond -- Day I was older -- For an exchange of rings -- Impossible marriage -- Mr Wakeville on Interstate 90 -- My friend Felix -- Merle Bascom's 22 -- Cider 5 cents a Glass -- Oliver at thirteen -- Edward's anecdote -- 6: One Day -- Shrubs burnt away -- Four classic texts -- To build a house -- 7: Height And House Of Desire -- Tubes -- Moon clock -- Carol -- Persistence of 1937 -- Six naps in one day -- Coffee cup -- This poem -- Praise for death -- Speeches -- Night of the day -- Another elegy -- 8: Baseball -- First inning -- Second inning -- Third inning -- Fourth inning -- Fifth inning -- Sixth inning -- Seventh inning -- Eighth inning -- Ninth inning -- 9: Museum Of Clear Ideas -- Decius-whose guileful -- We've come to expect -- Let engine cowling -- Winter's asperity mollifies -- Who's this fellow -- I'm not up to it -- Let many bad poets -- In the name of -- Mount Kearsarge shines -- Camilla, never ask -- Times are propitious -- Drusilla informs -- Ship of State, Hightide -- When the young husband -- Old woman whom I -- When the fine days -- When I was young -- Flaccus, drive up -- Let us meditate the virtue -- We explore grief's -- I suppose you've noticed -- Sabina-who explored -- Go write a poem -- Nunc est bibendum -- I, too, dislike -- 10: Extra Innings -- Tenth inning -- Eleventh inning -- Twelfth inning -- Thirteenth inning -- 11: Old Life -- Spring Glen Grammar School -- Hard man -- Venetian nights -- Blue -- My Aunt Liz -- Screenplay -- Profession -- Edit -- Girlfriend -- Giant broom -- Mr Eliot -- Le jazz -- Just married -- Dread -- Fragments -- Fame -- Forty years -- What counts -- Moon shot -- Seven and one half -- Elbows -- Wedding couple -- Rain -- Beans and franks -- Revisions -- Routine -- 12: All -- Her long illness -- Barber -- Porcelain couple -- Ship pounding -- Folding chair -- Her intent -- Without -- After life -- Retriever -- Painted bed -- 13: Letters Without Addresses -- Letter with no address -- Midsummer letter -- Letter in autumn -- Letter at Christmas -- Letter in the New Year -- Midwinter letter -- Letter after a year -- 14: Throwing Away -- Weeds and peonies -- After homer -- Her garden -- Summer kitchen -- Wool squares -- Pond afternoons -- Hours hours -- Wish -- Another Christmas -- Sweater -- Distressed haiku -- Throwing the things away -- Perfect life -- Deathwork -- Ardor -- Kill the day -- Razor -- Conversation's afterplay -- Charity and dominion -- Sun -- Villanelle -- Love poem -- Affirmation -- 15: Recent Poems -- Secrets -- Angels -- Master -- Surveyor and surface -- North south -- Mysteries -- Olives -- After Horace -- Tea -- Safe sex -- Tennis ball -- 1943 -- Usage -- White clapboard -- Witness's house -- Gospel -- We bring democracy to the fish -- Fishing for cats, 1944 -- Hunkering -- Note -- Index of titles and first lines.