LEADER 02618nam 2200517 a 450 001 9910825375803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8040-4005-2 035 $a(CKB)2550000000036416 035 $a(EBL)1743688 035 $a(OCoLC)606825315 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000534386 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11329781 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000534386 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10518559 035 $a(PQKB)10701920 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse9496 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1743688 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10472397 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1743688 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000036416 100 $a20020123d2002 uy p 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBelonging$b[electronic resource] $epoems /$fDick Davis 210 $aAthens $cSwallow Press/Ohio University Press$dc2002 215 $a1 online resource (65 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8040-1042-0 311 $a0-8040-1043-9 327 $aShadows; A Monorhyme for the Shower; Haydn and Hokusai; Night Thoughts; Iran Twenty Years Ago; To the Persian Poets; Political Asylum; In History; Gongora; A Petrarchan Sonnet; Casanova; Dido; In the Restaurant; Duchy and Shinks; West South West; Teresia Sherley; What; A World Dies . . .; Sweet Pleasure . . .; Hibernation; No Going Back; Secrets; Out of Time; Aubade; A Se Stesso; "Live Happily"; Guides for the Soul; Games; Victorian; Partners; Just a Small One, As You Insist; Desire; Farewell to the Mentors; A Bit of Paternity; Kipling's Kim, Thirty Years On; New at It; De?ja? Lu; Growing Up 327 $aOldSmall Talk; Just So; Notes 330 $a There are worlds within our own in which even the smallest victories are hard won, the tender moment is almost unbearable, and the understated rings like a bell. Belonging, a new collection by British poet Dick Davis, is an extended visit to these worlds. Deepened by his dry wit and the formal rigor of his verse, the poems of Belonging negotiate their way among personal and political divides-generations in a family, man and woman, and the tentative present and our inherited pasts. But behind much of the writing there is also a desire for a kind of idealized belonging-to a clerisy of civiliz 607 $aIran$vPoetry 676 $a821/.914 700 $aDavis$b Dick$f1945-$01618833 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910825375803321 996 $aBelonging$93985656 997 $aUNINA