Carnival Of Losses

Former poet laureate of the United States Donald Hall's final collection of essays, from the vantage point of very old age, once again ';alternately lyrical and laugh-out-loud funny.'* *(New York Times) ';Why should a nonagenarian hold anything back?' Donald Hall answers his own question in these self-knowing, fierce, and funny essays on aging, the pleasures of solitude,and the sometimes astonishi...