LEADER 02850nam 2200565Ia 450 001 9910822045003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8040-4025-7 035 $a(CKB)1000000000521657 035 $a(EBL)1743689 035 $a(OCoLC)191949010 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000285008 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11209868 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000285008 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10277631 035 $a(PQKB)11002635 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1743689 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse9447 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1743689 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10156425 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000521657 100 $a20051208d2006 ub p 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 12$aA trick of sunlight $epoems /$fDick Davis 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aAthens $cSwallow Press/Ohio University Press$dc2006 215 $a1 online resource (63 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8040-1089-7 311 $a0-8040-1088-9 327 $aChe?vrefeuille; Getting Away; Water; Happiness; He?re?dia; The Man from Provins; Before Sleep; The Old Model's Advice to the New Model; Edgar; Listening; What I Think; The Scholar as a Naughty Boy; Anglais Mort a? Santa Barbara; The Skeptic; Driving; Flying Back; Three Emilys; Turgeniev and Friends; Under 6 a Bottle; "They are not long, the days of wine and roses . . . "; Shopping; Chagrin; Pasts; A Visit to Grandmother's; Can We?; Cythe?re; Young Scholar; Farsighted; On a Remark of Karl Kraus; Preferences; Small Talk; The Phoenix; Dis's Defense 327 $aWilliam MacGonagall Welcomes the Initiative for a Greater Role for Faith-Based Education William Morris; Driving Westward; Are we going the same way?; Emblems; A Mystery Novel; Notes 330 $aIn 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 do 606 $aPoetry$y21st century 606 $aEnglish poetry$y21st century 615 0$aPoetry 615 0$aEnglish poetry 676 $a821/.914 700 $aDavis$b Dick$f1945-$01618833 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910822045003321 996 $aA trick of sunlight$93950782 997 $aUNINA