Breakfast Served Any Time All Day: Essays on Poetry New and Selected

220 pp. Breakfast Served Any Time All Day collects forty years of writings on poetry in one essential volume by master of American letters Donald Hall. CONTENTS: Preface; The Unsayable Said; Death to the Death of Poetry; Metallic Flowers; The Expression without the Song; The Vatic Voice; Goatfoot, Mliktongue, Twinbird; Journal Notes; Marvell's Manyness; Long Robinson; Robert Frost Corrupted; Pound's Sounds; Kenneth Rexroth; James Wright; Lament for a Maker; William Carlos Williams and the Visual; Pythagoras, Form, and Free Verse; Notes on the Image; Theory X Theory; Poetry and Ambition; Polonius's Advice to Young Poets; Starting and Keeping On; Hall's Index; Size and Scale; Naming the Skin; On Moving One's Lips, While Reading; The Way to Say Pleasure.