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Because I was always
busy writing when we were home, my
son and I did our best
talking in the car. When he was six
we drove from Thaxted
to Cambridge to do the laundry, and I
told him about
running the 440 at Exeter, how
I raced in a JV meet
against a runner named Bill Best
from Dover High School
whom I determined to beat. I sprinted
for the pole and was timed
at the 220 m ...
Donald Hall was named Poet Laureate of the United States in 2006
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This article originally appeared in The New Criterion, Volume 14 March 1996, on page 28
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