{"product_id":"essays-after-eighty-9780544570313b","title":"Essays After Eighty","description":"The former US Poet Laureate contemplates life, death, and the view from his window in these \"alternately lyrical and laugh-out-loud funny\" essays (New York Times).\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 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.\"\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.\"","brand":"Mariner Books","offers":[{"title":"Bargain","offer_id":42870117007440,"sku":"9780544570313B","price":6.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0592\/8173\/5760\/files\/9780544570313-l.jpg?v=1785883792","url":"https:\/\/bookoutlet.com\/products\/essays-after-eighty-9780544570313b","provider":"Book Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}