A Carnival Of Losses: Notes Nearing Ninety
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Former poet laureate of the United States Donald Hall’sfinal collection of essays, from the vantage point of very old age, once again “alernately lyrical and laugh-out-loud funny.” *(New York Times) “Whshould 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, andthe sometimes astonishing freedoms arising from both.  nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp Nearing ninety at the time of writing, he intersperses memries of exuberant days in his youth, wit uncensored tales of litrary friendships spanning decades—wih James Wright, Richard Wilbur, Seamus Heaney, andother luminaries.  nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp Cementing his place alongside Roger Angell and Joan Didion as a generous and profound chronicler of loss, this final work is as original and searing as anything Hall wrote durng hisnbspextraordinary literary lifetime.