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"Alternately lyrical and laugh-out-loud funny."?New York Times ?Deliciously readable . . . Donald Hall, if abandoned by the muse of poetry, has wrought his prose to a keen autumnal edge.??? Wall Street Journal ? 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
"Alternately lyrical and laugh-out-loud funny."?New York Times ?Deliciously readable . . . Donald Hall, if abandoned by the muse of poetry, has wrought his prose to a keen autumnal edge.??? Wall Street Journal ? 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