Essays After EightyThe 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). 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:

Irris Makler shines a hopeful light on a part of the world where the news reports often makes it seem impossibly dark

Secrets that threaten the one person Cas holds most dear

lit a fire under the right

Edith refuses all painkillers during childbirth

the glamorous world of New York City at his feet

Major has a lot of work to do

This exploration of opposites and emotions was described as \"a deceptively simple picture book

But Travis is not alone

Go anywhere

Beaver discovers that he may have unknowingly “made” another buddy instead

a steam-age country where magic usually does not work

Bell addresses the truism that we can’t talk about ourselves as sexual beings without asking who made us that way