A Carnival Of LossesFormer poet laureate of the United States Donald Halls final collection of essays, from the vantage point of very old age, is 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 ageing, the pleasures of solitude, and the sometimes astonishing freedoms arising from both. Nearing ninety at the time