Essays After Eighty - Paperback
by Donald Hall
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Availability:In StockContributor:Donald HallTheme:Chronological Period/Medieval (500-1453) StudiesPublish date:2015-11-03Pages:144
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Ecco PressISBN-13:9780544570313ISBN-10:544570316UPC:9780544570313Book Category:Literary Collections, PoetryBook Subcategory:Essays, Subjects & Themes, LettersBook Topic:PlacesSize:8.00 x 5.31 x 0.38 inchesWeight:0.25Product ID:SCPRX0KHQ6
The former US Poet Laureate contemplates life, death, and the view from his window in these "alternately lyrical and laugh-out-loud funny" essays (New York Times).
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 Essays After Eighty, 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."
"Alluring, inspirational hominess . . . Essays After Eighty is a treasure . . . balancing frankness about losses with humor and gratitude."--Washington Post
"A fine book of remembering all sorts of things past, Essays After Eighty is to be treasured."--Boston Globe
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 Essays After Eighty, 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."
"Alluring, inspirational hominess . . . Essays After Eighty is a treasure . . . balancing frankness about losses with humor and gratitude."--Washington Post
"A fine book of remembering all sorts of things past, Essays After Eighty is to be treasured."--Boston Globe
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Ecco PressISBN-13:9780544570313ISBN-10:544570316UPC:9780544570313Book Category:Literary Collections, PoetryBook Subcategory:Essays, Subjects & Themes, LettersBook Topic:PlacesSize:8.00 x 5.31 x 0.38 inchesWeight:0.25Product ID:SCPRX0KHQ6
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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