Breathing Room
Poems
Peter Davison, for years, has pondered with clear insight the perspectives of affection, attachment, loss, and memory, his language spare and his tone classical and deceptively quiet. The poems of this new collection look at the same world with surprise and speak of it with a startled and startling freedom, feeling 'entitled to / the liberty of breathing easy'--a freedom that brings with it the old clarity and eloquence.--W. S. MerwinThe poems in Peter Davison's exuberant new collection contemplate the paradox of growing old--of having a mind still a juicy swamp of invention in a body beginning to falter.Both intimate and generous, these poem…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-307-82450-9
- EAN: 9780307824509
- Produktnummer: 15724579
- Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 80 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'745 KB
Über den Autor
In addition to ten volumes of poetry, Peter Davison has written a memoir, Half Remembered (1973, 1991); a book of literary essays, One of the Dangerous Trades (1991); and a narrative of literary history, The Fading Smile (1994). He has also published literary and travel articles in a wide variety of periodicals. A former book editor, most notably at the Atlantic Monthly Press (1956-1985) and Houghton Mifflin (1985-1998), he is now poetry editor for The Atlantic Monthly. Born in New York City in 1928, son of the poet Edward Davison, he was educated in Colorado, at Harvard, and at Cambridge. He is married to the architect Joan E. Goody. He lives in Boston and Gloucester, Massachusetts.
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