Dismantlements of silence : poems selected and new / William Virgil Davis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Davis, William Virgil, 1940- author.

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry.

Children's poetry, American.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (210 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Huntsville,Texas : Texas Review Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

William Virgil Davis is a widely published, award-winning poet. Among his many honors, fellowships, and awards are the Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize, the New Criterion Poetry Prize, and the Helen C. Smith Memorial Award for Poetry. His poems regularly appear in leading journals, both in this country and abroad. His Dismantlements of Silence: Poems Selected and New brings together a generous selection of Davis's poetry to date. It includes samples of his early uncollected work, poems from his previously published books, and selections from his most recently published work. Driving Alone in Winter Driving alone in winter through acres of land deserted by everything save the snow trapped in the ruts of the road, the moon broken by the bare trees, I remember the days when my brothers and I would fall asleep in the backseat on the way home. Tonight, coming home, I remember the faint light on the dashboard holding my father's face, my mother's soft voice, my brothers asleep, the moon running among the trees beside the car.

Contents:

A night at the movies

Courtyard looking toward Artemis from the west cloister

Poem beginning and ending with a variation of a line by Geoffrey Hill

Something I cannot name has come close to me

November

Pilgrimage

Diet

Call

The other

What we said

An affair

"Border view, Hot Springs, Texas"

From the bones poems

Proem

After centuries

Their arrival

The bones meet the bones

In the pit

The bones die and go on living

Following the bones

The recognition

Their odyssey

In the dark

They make love

After three days

They gather together

Trespass

Meeting the bones

Where the bones move

Their sleep

After dark

Some things the bones never know

The bones in search of a bed

Renting your bed to the bones

Their words

The bones come home

In far fields

Their death

Oil

The promise

And if shriven at last they rise

Not many years

Their departure

Into the dark

Growing darker as they deepen

At rest

New poems

Rothko's "presences"

Home visit

A cat named Lonesome

A postcard from San Gimignano

Home from the factory

The voyeur

Winterset

The difference between art and artifice

The last team

Near the cabin

An early November meditation

A walk around the block

A visit.

Early uncollected poems

The pond

The hunt

In memory

The hawk

Following the stones

Aftermath

Alms

Razing the set

Leaving the cathedral

When things get out of hand

Variation on a theme by Stevens

The swamp

Confrontation in a rented cabin

Small town on a winter night

Letter to my brothers

The obstruction

I-35, south of Waco

The jewel casket

No time for welcome

Driftwood summer

The tree

Pentimento

On a hill in Crete

Ashes

Coming home

From one way to reconstruct the scene

Another night with snow

After the funeral

A triptych for my father

View from the backyard

My son in snow

Winter light

Driving alone in winter

The sleep of the insomniac

The oxygen tent

The cat in the snow

A late elegy for John Berryman

January

Spider

The ring tree

Mexico, my friend

Way to reconstruct the scene

The weight lifter

The leaving

An odor of chrysanthemums

In a room

That house, this room

Cultivation of pain

Snow

The time of year, the hour

The place of lost breath

Breakfast as a last resort

From winter light

Fragments

Legacy

Snow in Ohio

Pathetique

The watchers

Windows

The polar bear

A man and his hat

An evening in advent

The light

Winter walk

From landscape and journey

Landscape

In the cold air register

Those sunday mornings

The Ohio poem

Winter solstice

Scenes from childhood

Double elegy

A vision in late afternoon

October with rain

The river: a vision

Vigil at Heiligenkreuz

Stave church

A visit to Manafon

Tapestry

"Landscape with a pollard willow"

Winter roses

Pomegranates

Poem ending with a variation on a line by Charles Wright

A street scene

Sestina with two lines by Charles Tomlinson

First light.

Notes:

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-68003-048-5

OCLC:

938899235