A Trick of Sunlight
Poems
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 down many of life's possibilities and frees us from the…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-8040-4025-9
- EAN: 9780804040259
- Produktnummer: 20435410
- Verlag: Ohio University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
- Seitenangabe: 64 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 699 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
Über den Autor
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.
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