Download or read book Essays After Eighty written by Donald Hall and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2014-12-02 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The former U.S. Poet Laureate contemplates life, death, and the view from his window in these “alternately lyrical and laugh-out-loud funny” essays (The New York Times). From an early age, Donald Hall dedicated his life to the written word. In his long and celebrated career, he was an accomplished poet, essayist, memoirist, dramatist, and children’s author. Now, in the “unknown, unanticipated galaxy” of very old age, his essays continue to startle, move, and delight. In Essays After Eighty, Hall ruminates on his past: “thirty was terrifying, forty I never noticed because I was drunk, fifty was best with a total change of life, sixty extended the bliss of fifty . . .” He also addresses his present: “When I turned eighty and rubbed testosterone on my chest, my beard roared like a lion and gained four inches.” Most memorably, Hall writes about his enduring love affair with his ancestral Eagle Pond Farm and with the writing life that sustains him every day: “Yesterday my first nap was at 9:30 a.m., but when I awoke I wrote again.” “Deliciously readable…Donald Hall, if abandoned by the muse of poetry, has wrought his prose to a keen autumnal edge.” —The Wall Street Journal
Download or read book Around the World in Eighty Poems written by James Berry and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2002-07 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of eighty poems from more than fifty different countries.
Download or read book Poems After Eighty written by Eric Pfeiffer M.D. and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-09-11 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book of poems about the challenges and rewards of late liffe. It faces the issues squarely and courageously, with many valuable insights.
Download or read book New Poems written by Edwin Markham and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Coming into Eighty written by May Sarton and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-03-25 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVDIVIn May Sarton’s seventeenth and final collection of poetry, the writer reflects on life, aging, and mortality/divDIV Coming into Eighty presents a poet’s look at age. Herein, Sarton gives readers a glimpse into her quotidian tasks, her memories, her losses, and her triumphs. The volume explores topics ranging from the war in Iraq to the struggle of taking a cat to the vet. Dark and immediate, this work catalogues both the tedium and the splendor of life with equal wit and beauty. Winner of the Levinson Prize./div/div
Download or read book 99 After 80 written by Robert Sargent and published by Bunny and Crocodile Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An elderly poet writes 99 poems since his 80th birthday, ten years ago. During which time he has lost his eyesight
Download or read book A Carnival Of Losses written by Donald Hall and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2018-07-10 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 astonishing freedoms arising from both. Nearing ninety at the time of writing, he intersperses memories of exuberant days in his youth, with uncensored tales of literary friendships spanning decades—with James Wright, Richard Wilbur, Seamus Heaney, and other luminaries. 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 during his extraordinary literary lifetime.
Download or read book 80 Poems written by Lloyd Jacobs and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-17 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like his earlier book, "Before I Forget", "80 Poems" is the compilation of a life. The number of poems is significant, Jacobs is at once celebrating and lamenting his 80th birthday. Consistent with that, the poems among the 80 focus on the function and content of memory, and the uncertainty of life, particularly at advanced age. Throughout the book there is a spiritual tone of faith in the goodness of life."Rare is the octogenarian whose mind is so lucid and fingers so nimble as to pour forth daily poetic lines as deep and moving as those of Lloyd Jacobs. I found myself drawn from one page to the next, captivated, entranced by rich and colorful imagery, flowing forth like spring water, sometimes cool and refreshing, sometimes bubbling hot with fury, sometimes steaming with sultry passion, an all laced with the somber awareness of an imminent end. His rich and full life, from Marine Corps to surgeon and then professor, from Asian jungle to concrete jungle, from desperate loneliness to lost in love, all stitched with surgical skill into brief but stirring vignettes of ten thousand memories." -Lesly F. Massey, Ph.D.In 1962 Lloyd Jacobs was honorably discharged after four years of active duty in The United States Marine Corps. After undergraduate study at Miami University of Ohio, Jacobs attended The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and postdoctoral study at three institutions. He practiced Surgery for twenty years, becoming Professor of Surgery at The University of Michigan. He was appointed President of The Medical College of Ohio in 2003 and became president of the combined institution when the Medical College merged into The University of Toledo. He served in this role until 2014. At that time, he renewed his commitment to poetry and now writes poetry daily.
Download or read book Where the Time Went written by Clemens Carl Schoenebeck and published by . This book was released on 2018-09-30 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Think of Clem Schoenebeck as the music man, his poems inviting us to see possibilities of joy in the everyday, be it garden flowers or the Brahms Requiem, a brilliant sunset or the sterling qualities of a friend. Better yet, be his friend so he can write a poem about you and say such things as he is "familiar with his own clouds," thus "he seeks available light." Where the Time Went is actually the Collected Poems of Clem Schoenebeck. There is abundance here enough for three to four ordinary books of poems. Clem gives us a turtle that "hauls his own darkness" and a sunset in which "the outgoing tide" is "a rippling wash of wine." He describes "The Care of Hardwood Floors" in such loving detail you want to drop to your knees and get to it! To read these poems is to feel a sense of expansion: there's so much to life. Songs to sing, children to nurture, family and friends to embrace, the natural world in all its manifestations. -Claire Keyes, Professor Emerita of English, Salem State University, author of What Diamonds Can Do Reading the poems in Where the Time Went, I can think of no greater tribute than for Clemens Carl Schoenebeck to be called a "priest of the invisible" as Wallace Stevens might say. Witness "Alles in Ordnug," for example, where sons are reassuring their father as he takes his final breaths that "everything is fine...." This tercet's summation, "And the darkness knows everything," is the poet's ineluctable refrain of a sublime liturgy. I am especially drawn to the "FAMILY" selection, exemplified by the starkly memorable "Vespers" in which the poet, as a boy, recalls accompanying his father to the state hospital for the mentally ill "to visit my mother in her Purgatorial Home." The lines are sung by the poet who understands that only the passage of time instructs the catechism of one's heart. There are poems in Where the Time Went that will linger in your consciousness long after being read...and some will never leave. -Dennis Must, author of several story collections and novels including the forthcoming Brother Carnival
Download or read book Coming Into Eighty written by May Sarton and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Unexpectedly Eighty written by Judith Viorst and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-10-05 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Judith Viorst returns with more poems in her “Decades” poetry series detailing the highs and lows of being an octogenarian. Continuing the comedic insight from I’m Too Young to be Seventy, these verses of memories and advice from eighty years of love, marriage, and grandchildren are sure to bring laughs. What does it mean to be eighty? In her wise and playful poems, Judith Viorst discusses love, friendship, grand parenthood, and all the particular marvels—and otherwise—of this extraordinary decade. She describes the wonder of seeing the world with new eyes—not because of revelation but because of a successful cataract operation. She promises not to gently fade away, and not to drive after daylight’s faded away either. She explains how she’s gotten to be a “three-desserts” grandmother (“Just don’t tell your mom!”), shares how memory failure can keep you married, and enumerates her hopes for the afterlife (which she doesn’t believe in, but if it does exist, her sister-in-law better not be there with her). As Viorst gleefully attests, eighty is not too old to dream, to flirt, to drink, and to dance. It’s also not too late to give up being cheap or to take up with a younger man of seventy-eight. Zesty, hopeful, and full of the pleasures of living, Viorst’s poems speak to her legions of readers, who recognize themselves in her knowing observations, in her touching reflections, and in her joyful affirmations. Funny, moving, inspirational, and true—the newest in Judith Viorst’s beloved “decades” series extols the virtues, victories, frustrations, and joys of life.
Download or read book 80 Poems by Two Octogenarians written by Richard Leighton and published by Gatekeeper Press. This book was released on 2020-11-11 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is a book of 80 poems, half of the poems written by Dr. Leighton and half by Dr. Carlton. The poems cover topics of poetry, friends, pets and relatives, love, philosophy and teaching, health and libation, hunting and fishing, old age and death and trivia.
Download or read book Into Eighty and Summer Days written by Marion Martin Dickes and published by . This book was released on 2004-05-15 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry by the late Dr. Marion Martin Dickes. 1918-2006
Download or read book Without written by Donald Hall and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1999 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hall's bestselling collection ever speaks of the death of his wife--his gift and testimony, his lament, and his celebration of loss and love.
Download or read book The Post confessionals written by Earl G. Ingersoll and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the holdings of the Brockport Writers Forum Videotape Library, this collection of lively discussions of craft with nineteen contemporary poets illuminates the state of American poetry and poetics today.
Download or read book Around the World on Eighty Legs written by Amy S. Gibson and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amy Gibson takes readers on a fun-filled, fact-packed, romping, stomping, soaring, twirling, growling, smiling animal adventure around the globe. As readers visit habitats ranging from the Arctic to the savanna, from the Amazon to the outback, they will meet an exciting variety of animals, some familiar (like the cheetah) and some maybe not-so-familiar (like the takin). Charming illustrations by Daniel Salmieri make this a must-have for anyone who loves animals, adventure, and laughing out loud. Crocodile If you slosh through a bog, it may be worth your while - Stop and pause - Are those jaws? (Or a log with a smile?) Note: With only their eyes and nostrils above water, crocodiles lie in wait by the riverbank, still as can be. Any resemblance to floating logs ends, however, once they open their mouths.
Download or read book After Eighty written by Emily Romano and published by Shadows Ink. This book was released on 2008-07-01 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
