Belonging : poems / Dick Davis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Davis, Dick, 1945-

Language:

English

Physical Description:

54 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Athens : Swallow Press/Ohio University Press, [2002]

Summary:

Deepened by Dick Davis's 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; the tentative present and our inherited pasts. But much of the writing here is also evidence of a desire for a kind of idealized belonging -- to a clerisy of civilized and humane decency that can be found intermittently in all cultures and is the monopoly of none.

Contents:

Shadows 1

A Monorhyme for the Shower 2

Haydn and Hokusai 3

Night Thoughts 5

Iran Twenty Years Ago 6

To the Persian Poets 8

Political Asylum 9

In History 10

Gongora 11

A Petrarchan Sonnet 12

Casanova 13

Dido 14

In the Restaurant 15

Duchy and Shinks 16

West South West 17

Teresia Sherley 18

What 21

A World Dies ... 22

Sweet Pleasure ... 23

Hibernation 24

No Going Back 25

Secrets 26

Out of Time 27

Aubade 28

A Se Stesso 30

"Live Happily" 31

Guides for the Soul 32

Games 33

Victorian 35

Partners 37

Just a Small One, As You Insist 39

Desire 40

Farewell to the Mentors 41

A Bit of Paternity 42

Kipling's Kim, Thirty Years On 43

New at It 44

Deja Lu 46

Growing Up 47

Old 48

Small Talk 49

Just So 51

Notes 53.

ISBN:

0804010420

0804010439

OCLC:

48951175