This original paperback brings together for the first time all of Donald Hall's writing on Eagle Pond Farm, his ancestral home in New Hampshire, where he visited his grandparents as a young boy and then lived with his wife, the poet Jane Kenyon, until her death. It includes the entire, previously published Seasons at Eagle Pond and Here at Eagle Pond; the poem ?Daylilies on the Hill? from The Painted Bed; and several uncollected pieces. In these tender essays, Hall tells of the joys and quiddities of life on the farm, the pleasures and discomforts of a world in which the year has four seasons -- maple sugar, blackfly, Red Sox, and winter. Lyrical, comic, and elegaic, they sing of a landscape and culture that are disappearing under the assault of change.

This beloved collection captures the heart of that vanishing world:

• The Four Seasons of a Farm: Experience a year where the seasons are not spring or fall, but maple sugar, blackfly, Red Sox, and the long, deep quiet of a New Hampshire winter.
• An Ancestral Home: Step into the New England farmhouse where Hall's grandparents lived and where he and his wife, the poet Jane Kenyon, made their life together.
• Poetic Prose: A collection of lyrical, comic, and elegaic essays from one of America's most cherished poets, observing a world disappearing under the assault of change.
• A Disappearing Way of Life: Witness the joys and hardships of country life, from haying in summer to the solitary comfort of a winter woodstove, chronicled with love and unsentimental clarity.