{"product_id":"essays-after-eighty-book-donald-hall-9780544287044","title":"Essays After Eighty","description":"\u003cb\u003e Deliciously readable . . . Donald Hall, if abandoned by the muse of poetry, has wrought his prose to a keen autumnal edge. \u003ci\u003e Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eEssays After Eighty, \u003c\/i\u003eHall 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Alluring, inspirational hominess . . . \u003ci\u003eEssays After Eighty\u003c\/i\u003e is a treasure . . . balancing frankness about losses with humor and gratitude. \u003ci\u003e Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e A fine book of remembering all sorts of things past, \u003ci\u003eEssays After Eighty \u003c\/i\u003eis to be treasured. \u003ci\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e DONALD HAL, 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.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49552170156305,"sku":"GOR013687226","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49902657274129,"sku":"CIN0544287045VG","price":5.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49926140428561,"sku":"CIN0544287045G","price":6.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":51752468578577,"sku":"CIN0544287045A","price":4.58,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52081988108561,"sku":"GOR014481981","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0544287045.jpg?v=1750815707","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/essays-after-eighty-book-donald-hall-9780544287044","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}