{"product_id":"belonging-dick-davis-9780804010429","title":"Belonging: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eThere 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. \u003ci\u003eBelonging\u003c\/i\u003e, a new collection by British poet Dick Davis, is an extended visit to these worlds.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDeepened by his dry wit and the formal rigor of his verse, the poems of \u003ci\u003eBelonging\u003c\/i\u003e negotiate their way among personal and political divides-generations in a family, man and woman, and the tentative present and our inherited pasts.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBut behind much of the writing there is also a desire for a kind of idealized belonging-to a clerisy of civilized and humane decency which can be found intermittently in all cultures and is the monopoly of none. Davis's own cosmopolitan background provides the context for many of the poems, yet he is concerned always to find the humanly universal within the local and anecdotal-a hope realized in these careful and incandescent poems.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Dick Davis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0804010420\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780804010429\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ohio University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/01\/2002\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 54\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.46lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.84h x 5.66w x 0.43d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/01\/2002 pg. 1670","brand":"Dick Davis","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43947210572031,"sku":"9780804010429","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_e36e5bff-eb42-46c6-bbb5-e489217180c8.jpg?v=1681517380","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/belonging-dick-davis-9780804010429","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}