Essays After Eighty - by Donald Hall (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><p>From a former poet laureate, a new collection of essays delivering a gloriously unexpected view from the vantage point of very old age.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>"Alternately lyrical and laugh-out-loud funny."--<i>New York Times</i> <p/> "Deliciously readable . . . Donald Hall, if abandoned by the muse of poetry, has wrought his prose to a keen autumnal edge." <i>-- Wall Street Journal</i></b> <p/> His entire life, Donald Hall dedicated himself to the written word, putting together a storied career as a poet, essayist, and memoirist. Here, in the "unknown, unanticipated galaxy" of very old age, his essays startle, move, and delight. In <i>Essays After Eighty, </i>Hall ruminates on his past: "thirty was terrifying, forty I never noticed because I was drunk, fifty was best with a total change of life, sixty extended the bliss of fifty . . ." He also addresses his present: "When I turned eighty and rubbed testosterone on my chest, my beard roared like a lion and gained four inches." Most memorably, Hall writes about his enduring love affair with his ancestral Eagle Pond Farm and with the writing life that sustains him every day: "Yesterday my first nap was at 9:30 a.m., but when I awoke I wrote again." <br><b> <br> "Alluring, inspirational hominess . . . <i>Essays After Eighty</i> is a treasure . . . balancing frankness about losses with humor and gratitude." <i>-- Washington Post</i> <p/> "A fine book of remembering all sorts of things past, <i>Essays After Eighty </i>is to be treasured." -- <i>Boston Globe</i></b><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br><b> Deliciously readable . . . Donald Hall, if abandoned by the muse of poetry, has wrought his prose to a keen autumnal edge. <i> Wall Street Journal</i></b><br /> <br /> His entire life, Donald Hall has dedicated himself to the written word, putting together a storied career as a poet, essayist, and memoirist. Now, in the unknown, unanticipated galaxy of very old age, he is writing essays that startle, move, and delight. In <i>Essays After Eighty, </i>Hall ruminates on his past: thirty was terrifying, forty I never noticed because I was drunk, fifty was best with a total change of life, sixty extended the bliss of fifty . . . He also addresses his present: When I turned eighty and rubbed testosterone on my chest, my beard roared like a lion and gained four inches. Most memorably, Hall writes about his enduring love affair with his ancestral Eagle Pond Farm and with the writing life that sustains him every day: Yesterday my first nap was at 9:30 a.m., but when I awoke I wrote again. <br /><b><br /> Alluring, inspirational hominess . . . <i>Essays After Eighty</i> is a treasure . . . balancing frankness about losses with humor and gratitude. <i> Washington Post</i><br /> <br /> A fine book of remembering all sorts of things past, <i>Essays After Eighty </i>is to be treasured. <i>Boston Globe</i></b><br /> <br /> DONALD HALL, who served as poet laureate of the United States from 2006 to 2007, is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a recipient of the National Medal of Arts.<br />"<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>DONALD HALL, who served as poet laureate of the United States from 2006 to 2007, is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a recipient of the National Medal of the Arts, awarded by the president.
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