Essays after eighty - Donald Hall

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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.

, 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.