{"product_id":"best-day-the-worst-day-life-with-jane-kenyon","title":"Best Day the Worst Day: Life with Jane Kenyon","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eBest Day the Worst Day: Life with Jane Kenyon\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eArtist or Composer: \u003c\/b\u003eDonald Hall\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eUPC: \u003c\/b\u003e9780618478019\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLabel: \u003c\/b\u003eHoughton Mifflin Harcourt\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReleased: \u003c\/b\u003e2005\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat: \u003c\/b\u003eHardcover\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eFirst Edition\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e258\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition: \u003c\/b\u003eUsed Copy\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003eDonald Hall's celebrated book of poems Without was written for his wife, Jane Kenyon, who died in 1995. Hall returns to this powerful territory in The Best Day the Worst Day, a work of prose that is equally \"a work of art, love, and generous genius\" (Liz Rosenberg, Boston Globe).\u003cbr\u003e Jane Kenyon was nineteen years younger than Donald Hall and a student poet at the University of Michigan when they met. Hall was her teacher. The Best Day the Worst Day is an intimate account of their twenty-three-year marriage, nearly all of it spent in New Hampshire at Eagle Pond Farm -- of their shared rituals of writing, close attention to pets and gardening, and love in the afternoon. Hall joyfully records Jane's growing power as a poet and the couple's careful accommodations toward each other as writers. This portrait of the inner moods of \"the best marriage I know about,\" as Hall has written, is laid against the stark medical emergency of Jane's leukemia, which ended her life in fifteen months. Hall shares with readers -- as if we were one of the grieving neighbors, friends, and relatives -- the daily ordeal of Jane's dying, through heartbreaking and generous storytelling.\u003cbr\u003e The Best Day the Worst Day stands alongside Elegy to Iris as a powerful testimony to both loss and love.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Houghton Mifflin Harcourt","offers":[{"title":"Best Day the Worst Day: Life with Jane Kenyon | Donald Hall | Hardcover | 9780618478019 | Used: Like New | Back Stacks B 1737863","offer_id":48168645591192,"sku":"1737863","price":8.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Best Day the Worst Day: Life with Jane Kenyon | Donald Hall | Hardcover | 9780618478019 | Used: Very Good | Back Stacks B 1738224","offer_id":48168671248536,"sku":"1738224","price":8.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Best Day the Worst Day: Life with Jane Kenyon | Donald Hall | Hardcover | 9780618478019 | Used: Like New | Back Stacks H 1748778","offer_id":48856255660184,"sku":"1748778","price":8.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/612sChxDCHL.jpg?v=1771973070","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/best-day-the-worst-day-life-with-jane-kenyon","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}