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'Essays After Eighty' By Former US Poet Laureate Donald Hall

WAMC Northeast Public Radio | By Joe Donahue
Published January 5, 2015 at 10:10 AM EST

  Donald Hall has lived a remarkable life of letters, a career capped by a National Medal of the Arts, awarded by the president. Now, in the “unknown, unanticipated galaxy” of very old age, he is writing searching essays that startle, move, and delight.
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