One of the poems Hall selected for this edition was written by his wife,[1]Jane Kenyon. Hall also selected one of his own poems as one of the 75 best American poems of the year.
^[1] Web page titled "Former Poet Laureate Donald Hall" at the Web site of the Library of Congress, ("Hall was married for 23 years to the poet Jane Kenyon, who died in 1995.")accessed October 9, 2007