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14th Collection of Poems
Houghton Mifflin
April 2002
On Sale: April 11, 2002
112 pages
ISBN: 0618187898
EAN: 9780618187898
Hardcover
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Fiction Poetry
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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