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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Boston/New York, 2014. 144 pages. $22.When a friend told me she decided not to buy poet and essayist Donald Hall�s �Essays After Eighty� for her 80-something-year-old father for Christmas, I asked why.�Too close to the bone,� she said about the essays that come at aging from all angles, from all moods and all seasons in northern New England.Perhaps she should have taken the risk. Hall, the U.S. poet laureate in 2006-07, lives, writes and grows older at his New Hampshire family homestead. From his sitting chair at the window, he lays out the writer�s life with insight, an undiminished supply of smart sentences, no small slathering of wit, and respectable sobriety when the occasion warrants.Though Hall, in his mid-�80s, has some years on me, I have once again been welcomed home by this writer. Can a book be a home? Yes, when it gives you an education, cheers you at just the right moments and talks to you with respect and clarity. For some people, books provide the material needed for informed maturation throughout life.And, yes, �Essays After Eighty� is close to the bone. But many will thank Hall for telling us what, precisely, aging looks like and, even, what it can be if we reflect with wit and grace. And do not discount the importance of amusing ourselves. When you read Hall, you cannot help but think that he is his own best audience.Because of this book, we see the things that fall away as we, more specifically Hall, ages � from access to upstairs rooms to the cane incrementally replaced by the wheelchair to the home-cooked meals to the certitude of the toilet�s precise location. Thank goodness for Stouffer�s. For neighbors and friends. For the fire department that twice had to extinguish a fire ignited by a cigarette in Hall�s blue reading chair.As the world view grows more circumscribed, it can attain sharper focus. The cow barn that once sheltered milking cows is now �a barn for looking at� � something Hall does every single day from his chair.�Out the Window� is an essay full of observation, physical and otherwise. �When we turn 80, we understand that we are extraterrestrial,� he writes. And people can be condescending.A museum guard once asked him how he liked his �din-din.� Personal essays, so good for rapt reading, are also good for commiseration. Who among friends admits these petty (sadly universal) degradations?Every essay is worthy of your time. The title essay is a must-read for writers. Hall�s essays undergo 30 to 80 revisions before he lets one go. He has abandoned writing poetry, his passion, because he�s lost what was propelled from his �brain-depths� by testosterone�s thrust.Page 2 of 3 - In this essay, he mentions the need for contrast. In many cases in the personal essay form, that contrast is personal revelation of an unsavory sort. A good essayist like Hall, though he may no longer have the physical balance to stand at the top of the stairs, can still balance character and conflict and come out unscathed.We do learn a few unsavory things. Hall smokes, despite two major bouts with cancer early on. And he�s honest about the way cigarettes impair the quality of life for him and those around him. The rug at the foot of his gazing chair and surrounding books show signs of scorching. He has dropped many a burning cigarette. In one case, it led to a car accident; in another, to the chair fire mentioned earlier.Hall has an awareness of his physical self that follows him through these essays. In �A Yeti in the Distance� he writes of �life�s widest smile� after receiving an award from President Barack Obama. He also writes of Ken Burn�s image of him looking wide-mouthed and stupefied.In �Three Beards,� we learn that each of his bearded stages was instigated by a woman. 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