{"product_id":"hall-donald-essays-aftpb","title":"Hall, Donald: Essays After Eighty","description":"\u003cp\u003eEcco Press, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: November 03, 2015\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing: \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 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).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMost 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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Alluring, inspirational hominess . . . Essays After Eighty is a treasure . . . balancing frankness about losses with humor and gratitude.\"-- Washington Post\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A fine book of remembering all sorts of things past, Essays After Eighty is to be treasured.\"-- Boston Globe\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40817159634967,"sku":"9780544570313","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/files\/81UM_bVmltL._AC_UF1000_1000_QL80.jpg?v=1767826772","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/hall-donald-essays-aftpb","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}