Essays After Eighty

Donald Hall

mai 2015 · Tantor Media Inc · Lu par Tom Perkins

À propos de ce livre audio

Donald Hall has lived a remarkable life of letters, a career capped by a National Medal of the Arts, awarded by the president. Now, in the "unknown, unanticipated galaxy" of very old age, he is writing searching essays that startle, move, and delight. Hall paints his past: "Decades followed each other-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 . . ." And, poignantly, often joyfully, he limns his present: "When I turned eighty and rubbed testosterone on my chest, my beard roared like a lion and gained four inches." Most memorably, Hall writes about his enduring love affair with his ancestral Eagle Pond Farm and with the writing life that sustains him, every day.

À propos de l'auteur

Donald Hall is the award-winning author of numerous books and collections of poetry, including Ox-Cart Man, White Apples and the Taste of Stone, and New Poets of England and America. He served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 2006 to 2007. Donald lives in New Hampshire.

An award-winning audio engineer for over forty years, Tom Perkins has expanded his skills to narrating and has more than sixty titles to his credit. He learned by working with the world's best voice talent during his career, and he continues to engineer a variety of projects.