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The One Day

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First edition
AuthorDonald Hall
Original titleThe One Day
PublishedMariner Books
Media typePrint
Pages80
AwardsNational Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry (1988)
ISBN0899198163

The One Day by Donald Hall is a book-length poem.

Synopsis

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The book is composed of three parts--"Shrubs Burnt Away," "Four Classic Texts" and "To Build a House", employing a 10-line stanza with variable line length in an experimental form. It centers on mid-life anxiety, using phrases like "a preparation of death." It is not completely dark and despairing, as it focuses on how to make a life worth living, instructing readers to: "Work, love, build a house, and die. But build a house."

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