{"product_id":"essays-after-eighty","title":"Essays After Eighty","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Alternately lyrical and laugh-out-loud funny.\"--\u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Deliciously readable . . . Donald Hall, if abandoned by the muse of poetry, has wrought his prose to a keen autumnal edge.\" \u003cem\u003e-- Wall Street Journal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\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 \u003cem\u003eEssays After Eighty, \u003c\/em\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 \u003cbr\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e\"Alluring, inspirational hominess . . . \u003cem\u003eEssays After Eighty\u003c\/em\u003e is a treasure . . . balancing frankness about losses with humor and gratitude.\" \u003cem\u003e-- Washington Post\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"A fine book of remembering all sorts of things past, \u003cem\u003eEssays After Eighty \u003c\/em\u003eis to be treasured.\" -- \u003cem\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Donald Hall","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43793300652074,"sku":"9780544570313","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/0891\/6522\/files\/essays-after-eighty-1606765.jpg?v=1762151370","url":"https:\/\/thepoetryshop.com\/products\/essays-after-eighty","provider":"The Poetry Shop LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}