Donald Hall on Growing Old and Our Cultural Attitude Toward the Elderly

The tragedy of our culture of appearances is that people seem to disappear from our scope of curiosity as they grow old. Animated by our unconscious social biases, despite our best intentions, we lose interest in “who the person is” and render the elderly invisible. The felt interiority of that disconnect is what poet Donald Hall explores with unparalleled insight and rhetoric verve in "Essays After Eighty" — a magnificent volume of reflections on art, aging, and the dialogue between the two.
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