{"product_id":"a-carnival-of-losses-notes-nearing-ninety-isbn-9781328826343","title":"A Carnival Of Losses: Notes Nearing Ninety","description":"\u003cstrong\u003e“Hall lived long enough to leave behind two final books, memento mori titled ‘Essays After Eighty’ (2014) and now ‘A Carnival of Losses: Notes Nearing Ninety.’ They’re up there with the best things he did\u003c\/strong\u003e.” \u003cstrong\u003e—Dwight Garner, \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom the former poet laureate of the United States, essays from the vantage point of very old age\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Donald Hall lived a remarkable life of letters, one capped most recently by the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestseller \u003cem\u003eEssays After Eighty,\u003c\/em\u003e a “treasure” of a book in which he “balance[s] frankness about losses with humor and gratitude” (\u003cem\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/em\u003e). Before his passing in 2018, nearing ninety, Hall delivered this new collection of self-knowing, fierce, and funny essays on aging, the pleasures of solitude, and the sometimes astonishing freedoms arising from both. He intersperses memories of exuberant days—as in Paris, 1951, with a French girl memorably inclined to say, “I couldn’t care less”—with writing, visceral and hilarious, on what he has called the “unknown, unanticipated galaxy” of extreme old age.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Why should a nonagenarian hold anything back?” Hall answers his own question by revealing several vivid instances of “the worst thing I ever did,\" and through equally uncensored tales of  literary friendships spanning decades, with James Wright, Richard Wilbur, Seamus Heaney, and other luminaries. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Cementing his place alongside Roger Angell and Joan Didion as a generous and profound chronicler of loss, Hall returns to the death of his beloved wife, Jane Kenyon, in an essay as original and searing as anything he's written in his extraordinary literary lifetime. | \u003cp\u003e“A freewheeling essay collection that’s a fitting coda to a distinguished career . . . Hall may have reached his roundhouse but not before bequeathing readers with this moving valedictory gift.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“It's a beauty, brimming with stories, confessions and faded snapshots in time in which he muses about life, settles a few scores and brags a little about his accomplishments . . . It’s odd that a book whose subject is loss could be so uplifting. And yet it is. Hall may be telling us what it’s like to fall apart, but he does it so calmly, and with such wit and exactitude, that you can’t help but shake your head in wonder.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAssociated Press\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHall lived long enough to leave behind two final books, memento mori titled \u003ci\u003eEssays After Eighty\u003c\/i\u003e (2014) and now \u003ci\u003eA Carnival of Losses: Notes Nearing Ninety\u003c\/i\u003e. They’re up there with the best things he did. - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDwight Garner, New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDonald Hall writes about love and loss and art and home in a manner so essential and direct it’s as if he’s put the full force of his life on the page. There are very few perfect books and \u003ci\u003eA Carnival of Losses\u003c\/i\u003e is one of them. - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnn Patchett\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA joy to read. - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBookPage\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt’s a heartbreaking beauty of a book. - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBookish\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHall’s ruminative and detailed reflections on life make this a fantastic follow-up to his \u003ci\u003eEssays After Eighty\u003c\/i\u003e. - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly, starred review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA joyful, wistful celebration of poetry, poets, and a poet’s life . . . There’s much to enjoy in these exuberant 'notes.' - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ecco","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44890278035685,"sku":"NP9781328826343","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781328826343.jpg?v=1730232929","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/a-carnival-of-losses-notes-nearing-ninety-isbn-9781328826343","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}