"Essays After Eighty" by Donald Hall. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Boston/New York, 2014. 144 pages. $22.When a friend told me she decided not to buy poet and essayist Donald Hall's "Essays After Eighty" for her 80-something-year-old father for Christmas, I asked why."Too close to the bone," she said about the essays that come at aging from all angles, from all moods and all seasons in northern New England.Perhaps she should have taken the risk. Hall, the U.S. poet laureate in 2006-07, [...]
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