Essays After Eighty Hall DonaldPaperback
Essays After Eighty Hall DonaldPaperback 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…
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Essays After Eighty Hall DonaldPaperback
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. ." 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 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 . .