Essays After Eighty The unfaithful cad can have

The unfaithful cad can have the house

and what the good life truly is

Delve in and soon you'll be roasting

The tale that emerged was like a living thing

and middle age

Essays After Eighty The unfaithful cad can haveThe former US Poet Laureate contemplates life, death, and the view from his window in these "alternately lyrical and laugh out loud funny" essays (New York Times). His entire life, Donald Hall dedicated himself to the written word, putting together a storied career as a poet, essayist, and memoirist. Here, in the "unknown, unanticipated galaxy" of very old age, his essays startle, move, and delight. In Essays After Eighty, Hall ruminates on his past: