{"product_id":"essays-after-eighty-570313","title":"Essays After Eighty","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"read-more\" data-overviewlongdescription=\"null\" data-aboutthebook=\"true\" id=\"product-description-1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"aboutthebook\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe former US Poet Laureate contemplates life, death, and the view from his window in these “alternately lyrical and laugh-out-loud funny” essays (\u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e).\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eEssays After Eighty,\u003c\/em\u003e 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.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Alluring, inspirational hominess . . . \u003cem\u003eEssays After Eighty\u003c\/em\u003e is a treasure . . . balancing frankness about losses with humor and gratitude.”—\u003cem\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A fine book of remembering all sorts of things past, \u003cem\u003eEssays After Eighty\u003c\/em\u003e is to be treasured.”—\u003cem\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Royal Gift Land","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42924989775961,"sku":"9780544570313","price":13.32,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0611\/0206\/3705\/files\/9780544570313.jpg?v=1766071492","url":"https:\/\/royalgiftland.com\/products\/essays-after-eighty-570313","provider":"Royal Gift Land","version":"1.0","type":"link"}