This week in Studio 360, host Kurt Andersen and poet Donald Hall look at the human desire to make present what has been lost. They find memorials joyful and sad, in painting, in poetry, and in totem poles. And they consider the requiem written by composer John Adams in memory of those lost on September 11th. Special Guest: Donald Hall has published fifteen books of poetry, most recently The Painted Bed (Houghton Mifflin, 2002) and Without: Poems (1998), which was published on the third anniversary of his wife and fellow poet Jane Kenyon’s death from leukemia. From 1984 to 1989 he served as Poet Laureate of New Hampshire.
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