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Carnival of Losses: Notes Nearing Ninety

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Former poet laureate of the United States Donald Hall's final collection of essays, from the vantage point of very old age, once again "alternately lyrical and laugh-out-loud funny."*
*(New York Times)

"Why should a nonagenarian hold anything back?" Donald Hall answers his own question in these self-knowing, fierce, and funny essays on aging, the pleasures of solitude, and the sometimes astonishing freedoms arising from both.
Nearing ninety at the time of writing, he intersperses memories of exuberant days in his youth, with uncensored tales of literary friendships spanning decades--with James Wright, Richard Wilbur, Seamus Heaney, and other luminaries.
Cementing his place alongside Roger Angell and Joan Didion as a generous and profound chronicler of loss, this final work is as original and searing as anything Hall wrote during his extraordinary literary lifetime.
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Book Details

ISBN:
9780358056140
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
224
Authors:
Donald Hall
Publisher:
Ecco Press
Published Date:
2019-04-09
Language:
English

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About the poet: Donald Hall

Donald Hall (1928–2018) was born in New Haven, Connecticut, and became one of the most celebrated American poets of his generation. He edited the influential anthology New Poets of England and America (1957) and published extensively across six decades. He and his wife, poet Jane Kenyon, settled on Eagle Pond Farm in New Hampshire, which became the landscape of much of his late work. After Kenyon's death from leukemia in 1995, he wrote Without (Houghton Mifflin, 1998), a collection of elegy. He served as United States Poet Laureate from 2006 to 2007. Among his other major collections are The One Day (1988), which won the National Book Critics Circle Award, and White Apples and the Taste of Stone (2006).

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Carnival of Losses: Notes Nearing Ninety

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