{"product_id":"a-carnival-of-losses","title":"A Carnival of Losses","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormer 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.\"*\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e*(\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNearing 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCementing 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ecco Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48836072702157,"sku":"9780358056140","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0557\/1529\/9533\/files\/imageloader_cdb4e728-0f12-41ab-993c-bb1ff575c634.jpg?v=1790992686","url":"https:\/\/booksatmidnight.com\/products\/a-carnival-of-losses","provider":"Books At Midnight","version":"1.0","type":"link"}