{"product_id":"essays-after-eighty-essays-from-the-acclaimed-u-s-poet-laureate","title":"Essays After Eighty: Essays from the Acclaimed U.S. Poet Laureate","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).\n\nHis 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.\n\nIn 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.”\n\nMost 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.”\n\n“Alluring, inspirational hominess . . . Essays After Eighty is a treasure . . . balancing frankness about losses with humor and gratitude.”—Washington Post\n\n“A fine book of remembering all sorts of things past, Essays After Eighty is to be treasured.”—Boston Globe\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0544570316\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: BVV.0544570316.VG\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Very Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Hall, Donald\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Book has little sign of wear or use  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Blue Vase Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43656518074429,"sku":"BVV.0544570316.VG","price":6.74,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0589\/4225\/9261\/files\/0544570316-0_2266d0f6-edb2-43be-a9d4-a6df68ada1cf.jpg?v=1789938590","url":"https:\/\/www.bluevasebooks.com\/products\/essays-after-eighty-essays-from-the-acclaimed-u-s-poet-laureate","provider":"Blue Vase Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}