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1 online resource (vii, 196 pages) |
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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 |
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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 |
| 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 |
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English |
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American poetry.
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Children's poetry, American.
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FICTION -- General.
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American poetry
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Children's poetry, American
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Electronic books
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poetry.
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Poetry
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Poetry.
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Poésie.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781680030488 |
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1680030485 |
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