Belonging: Poems - Couverture souple

Davis, Dick

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0804010439 ISBN 13 : 9780804010436

Editeur : Swallow Press, 2002

Synopsis

There are worlds within our own in which even the smallest victories are hard won, the tender moment is almost unbearable, and the understated rings like a bell. Belonging, a new collection by British poet Dick Davis, is an extended visit to these worlds. Deepened by his dry wit and the formal rigor of his verse, the poems of Belonging negotiate their way among personal and political divides-generations in a family, man and woman, and the tentative present and our inherited pasts. But behind much of the writing there is also a desire for a kind of idealized belonging-to a clerisy of civilized and humane decency which can be found intermittently in all cultures and is the monopoly of none. Davis's own cosmopolitan background provides the context for many of the poems, yet he is concerned always to find the humanly universal within the local and anecdotal-a hope realized in these careful and incandescent poems.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Dick Davis was born in Portsmouth, England. He is a professor of Persian at Ohio State University. He has published translations of prose from Italian and poetry and prose from Persian, and six books of his own poetry. His most recent collection, Belonging, was chosen by The Economist as a "Book of the Year" for 2002.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Swallow Press
• Date d'édition: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0804010439
• ISBN 13: 9780804010436
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 56
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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