Essays After Eighty Christianity's role as a cornerstone

Christianity's role as a cornerstone of white supremacy has been largely overlooked

It is a story about everything money can buy--and the destruction of what it can't

and what the good life truly is

lyrical evocations of nature and the wild

and middle age

Essays After Eighty Christianity's role as a cornerstoneThe 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: