Belonging : poems / Dick Davis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Davis, Dick, 1945-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Iran--Poetry.

Iran.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (65 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Athens : Swallow Press/Ohio University Press, c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 civiliz

Contents:

Shadows; A Monorhyme for the Shower; Haydn and Hokusai; Night Thoughts; Iran Twenty Years Ago; To the Persian Poets; Political Asylum; In History; Gongora; A Petrarchan Sonnet; Casanova; Dido; In the Restaurant; Duchy and Shinks; West South West; Teresia Sherley; What; A World Dies . . .; Sweet Pleasure . . .; Hibernation; No Going Back; Secrets; Out of Time; Aubade; A Se Stesso; "Live Happily"; Guides for the Soul; Games; Victorian; Partners; Just a Small One, As You Insist; Desire; Farewell to the Mentors; A Bit of Paternity; Kipling's Kim, Thirty Years On; New at It; Déjà Lu; Growing Up

OldSmall Talk; Just So; Notes

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9780804040051

0804040052

OCLC:

606825315