various disciplines together. A counter- of tools and instruction. About 70 per in 1983, and according to critics, it was l
culture creature." He was active as a cent of the catalog was for instruction worth waiting for.
contributing member, a trustee and a books. As the counter-culture surfaced ln the early #7OS Meclenennn
fund-raiser "to try to make that place into the culture itself, the catalog found returned tu Kentucky to lill in es l
work." a broad audience in the mainstream. Visiting professor er Creative Writing l
While Hall was pursuing his work in The last one published, The Last Whole when his friend Wendell Berry, who l
New England, Norman and Earth Calalags lacluddd a aovsl by had returned to UK from NYU was on  
MeClanahan remained in California Norman, Divine Rights Trip. It sold over Sebbetieul_ lrrern the Lexington l
where Norman says he was "l`rolicl By that tnnetlim Hull was K
with the compilation and publication of novella length V€F$l0¤ ol The Natural a full-time faculty member, "and l l
lll? Wilt/lf Earth Cal0l0.§’· Tllc catalog Man which he had used {O aPPlY {OI the Wendell was back and I came to UK to    
offered mail-order service for the "new Stegner Fellowship. He had every teeteh awhile, tOO_>> He also taught at é l
age lil`e." What we called the counter- intention of finishing the book and Nnrtliern Kentuelty Uniyerslty in the
culture life, people who were going making it a full-length novel. "I found l979_8O Seltenl yeer_ <¤·l—nen et the lest V
back to the land." He says that the everything going on around Stanford nessible rnenient l get around te
catalog came out as a way to help rather distracting. But, it was a lot of llnisliing my nOyel_>¤ l.llS latest bunk,
people get what they needed in the way fun.” The novel was finally published Famous people [ Have Known) was
published in October 1985. Now he is
working on a screenplay about the
~_ _ _ It became atziumzn one peizizeezn attractive and possible §Q‘§§§§,°;§$§ii SIia,§O§g0I,j€.§§i‘Zi$EZ1“g
to return home, which it wasn ’t for several generations. " hopes lo oomolslo in l987 and is also
  working on a play, entitled "The
Congress of Wonders."
< ( ‘ »‘ ' ' ‘ · Hall returned to the University of
. . . and now it s possible in my role t0 brzngyoung people into Kentucky to teach in 1973 and rmmd
the presence tyf great poems and great stories. ” — james Baker Hall that he could devote more of himself to
  writing. A book of his poems, Getting It
Up On The Brag, was published in 1975
_  eeett.   .. , . followed by other works published in
  _-·   `I  5 ll - national magazines. He wen e poetry
. _ tgt tl  tt  ,` " , V     . ~ _ writing grant in 1978 (and a university
t \t new    `t \ E   l   % I it   t —   m   - · sabbatical) and was able to spend more
`i· ,t _    r \ ,»•     _ ¥ ’ · t ·  l   i-··     H. _   than two years writing and traveling.
  in .   ‘·‘ 'LK ' -   .—s..   ` ` ' U       `   His most recent book of poems is Her
_ __ . ' `  `   Name.
 _   .   __ ti`~¤.·     ,     {Z   U _ _   As a teacher, Hall is attentive. He
— ` l     l it    -  l   ·—  '    ~. t'   A C     I ` l ll listens intently, fixing unwavering blue
t     t      Qs   l—     `T [ _ It/.‘ Ire j »    `V  ‘*  `     The  ‘lt‘ eyes on the speaker. As a student reads
‘t   ‘    _  ‘ ll ly  J}! `     ·»   t —   ——     her own poem out loud to the class it is
    ‘ J l‘ ' / , i· '     ` ·`   very quiet and everyone listens hard.
· ' _ ‘ _ Q   ~  A °'i Q When she finishes the reading,
, ‘•"tlT§sr··~·* ` t _ yi   t     V classmates applaud. There are about 12
ex ‘    ‘   _ ‘ V   __.`     I · . of them. Hall asks, "Is this a new
_ ’ _ I XE?       poem?"
‘\   ` ~·     ’ ‘“Good for you," he says. "Read it
5   again."
` _,,te"F ` i ` tt ig, ,.\ When she finishes, Hall looks around
{ii"' t   i     ` i `N the room encouraging review and
ts .   ·s i l  it `—\_ criticism of the poem. He asks if
  °   ‘``` L anyone has more to say; he waits, and
lomes Boker lioll then quickly begins to point out the
 
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