A trick of sunlight : poems / Dick Davis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Davis, Dick, 1945-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poetry, Modern--21st century.

Poetry, Modern.

English poetry--21st century.

English poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (63 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Athens : Swallow Press/Ohio University Press, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In his new collection of poems, Dick Davis, the acclaimed author of Belonging, addresses themes that he has long worked with-travel, the experience of being a stranger, the clash of cultures, the vagaries of love, the pleasures and epiphanies of meaning that art allows us. But A Trick of Sunlight introduces a new theme that revolves around the idea of happiness-is it possible, must it be illusory, is its fleetingness an essential part of its nature so that disillusion is inevitable? Many of the poems are shaded by the poet's awareness of growing older, and by the ways that this both shuts do

Contents:

Chèvrefeuille; Getting Away; Water; Happiness; Hérédia; The Man from Provins; Before Sleep; The Old Model's Advice to the New Model; Edgar; Listening; What I Think; The Scholar as a Naughty Boy; Anglais Mort à Santa Barbara; The Skeptic; Driving; Flying Back; Three Emilys; Turgeniev and Friends; Under 6 a Bottle; "They are not long, the days of wine and roses . . . "; Shopping; Chagrin; Pasts; A Visit to Grandmother's; Can We?; Cythère; Young Scholar; Farsighted; On a Remark of Karl Kraus; Preferences; Small Talk; The Phoenix; Dis's Defense

William MacGonagall Welcomes the Initiative for a Greater Role for Faith-Based Education William Morris; Driving Westward; Are we going the same way?; Emblems; A Mystery Novel; Notes

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9780804040259

0804040257

OCLC:

191949010