it's perfect for devotional reading
Delve in and soon you'll be roasting
It is a story about everything money can buy--and the destruction of what it can't
lyrical evocations of nature and the wild
Essays After Eighty it's perfect for devotional readingThe 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: