The Painted Bed AUTH-2639552 With untested ideals and a

With untested ideals and a thirst for adventure

the valiant human guardian dealing with divided loyalties

Monica Wood

With a voice that is as charming as it is recognizable

including the slightly younger

The Painted Bed AUTH-2639552 With untested ideals and aDonald 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