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The Painted Bed - by Donald Hall (Paperback)

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  • Donald Hall's fourteenth collection opens with an epigraph from the Urdu poet Faiz: "The true subject of poetry is the loss of the beloved.
  • Author(s): Donald Hall
  • 112 Pages
  • Poetry,

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By turns furious and resigned, spirited and despairing, Hall's masterly follow-up to "Without" reexamines his grief over the death of his wife, the poet Jane Kenyon, and considers the life he has made since.



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Donald Hall's fourteenth collection opens with an epigraph from the Urdu poet Faiz: "The true subject of poetry is the loss of the beloved." In that poetic tradition, as in THE PAINTED BED, the beloved might be a person or something else - life itself, or the disappearing countryside. Hall's new poems further the themes of love, death, and mourning so powerfully introduced in his WITHOUT (1998), but from the distance of passed time. A long poem, "Daylilies on the Hill 1975 - 1989," moves back to the happy repossession of the poet's old family house and its history - a structure that "persisted against assaults" as its generations of residents could not. These poems are by turns furious and resigned, spirited and despairing - "mania is melancholy reversed," as Hall writes in another long poem, "Kill the Day." In this book's fourth and final section, "Ardor," the poet moves toward acceptance of new life in old age; eros reemerges.



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"A compelling, sometimes shocking, and certainly deeply moving depiction of bereavement." --Sally Connolly, POETRY


Dimensions (Overall): 9.08 Inches (H) x 5.99 Inches (W) x .3 Inches (D)
Weight: .37 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 112
Genre: Poetry
Publisher: Ecco Press
Format: Paperback
Author: Donald Hall
Language: English
Street Date: May 7, 2003
TCIN: 77266717
UPC: 9780618340750
Item Number (DPCI): 247-53-4807
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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Q: Who is the author of The Painted Bed?

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Q: What type of poetry is featured in this collection?

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