{"product_id":"painted-bed","title":"Painted Bed","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003ePainted Bed\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eDonald Hall\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780618187898\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eHoughton Mifflin Harcourt\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2002\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003eHardcover\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eFirst Edition\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e112\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eExcellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003eDonald 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.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Houghton Mifflin Harcourt","offers":[{"title":"Painted Bed | Donald Hall | Hardcover | 9780618187898 | Used: Like New | Back Stacks A 1775188","offer_id":49724725592216,"sku":"1775188","price":8.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/61Eo4Gb68SL.jpg?v=1787313927","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/painted-bed","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}