Essays After Eighty

BEHOLD, A RAGGED MAN Lentzian Sonnet Rhyming Sequence aa, bcbc, dd, efef, gg On the shanks of Ragged Mountain a poet rages in common diminishment, Writing of paradise lost and donning a riotous beard like a Russian dissident, Echoes of Robert Frost with hard clarity and common sense in his disposition, Ga......more

One of my favorite categories of books is that of essays and other non-fiction by novelists. On Writing by Stephen King, The Opposite of Fate by Amy Tan, Payback by Margaret Atwood, and there are so many more. I've read little of the fiction of these writers, but it seems that knowing how to tell a......more

Donald Hall is a man of words, a poet who has mastered prose. He takes on many subjects and life experiences in this short memoir which is an odyssey into the world of the old. He takes on some of his challenges very seriously, like his lack of balance, reliance on a wheel chair and inability to spea......more

here is a very good review of this book [URL not allowed] here is a not good one a very funny and wry collection of short chatty essays about being an old geezer, a poet who doesn't write poems anymore, about memories and day to day. a nice touch was his explanation of how he wri......more