The Poems of Peter Davidson, 1957-1995 - Softcover

Davison, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0679765891 ISBN 13: 9780679765899

Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1997

Synopsis

Brings together poetry from "The Breaking of the Day," "The City and the Island," "Pretending to Be Asleep," "Walking the Boundaries," "A Voice in the Mountains," "Barn Fever," "Praying Wrong," "The Great Ledge," and "Harmonica." Reprint.

About this title

About the Author:

Schooled in Colorado and at Harvard and Cambridge Universities and long a resident of Boston, Peter Davison-is known as one of the foremost poetry editors, especially in his work for Houghton Mifflin Company and The Atlantic Monthly. In addition to the explorations in his nine books of poetry, he has recorded his memoirs in Half Remembered: A Personal History and in The Fading Smile: Poets in Boston, 1955-1960, from Robert Frost to Robert Lowell to Sylvia Plath.
From the Hardcover edition.

From the Inside Flap:

f Peter Davison, of which this is the ninth volume, covers a broad range of subject matter. Musical and supple, with rewards for the eye, the ear, and the mind, concerned as much with country as with city matters, Davison's poems move past personality. They open questions of identity, explorations of the natural world, personal and religious conflict, and the mysterious workings of memory. His poetry, such as the long poem "The Great Ledge," is especially moving and powerful when read aloud.

Though Davison is perhaps most widely known as an editor of poetry, his poems are neither academic nor exclusive. John Hall Wheelock wrote, after Davison's earliest book won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award in 1963, "With Peter Davison, feeling has come back into poetry." May Swenson, reviewing his second book, said: "There is a savage self-revelation and deep understanding of the hearts and minds of others." Alfred Kazin spoke of "the bone-sharp integrity of D

About this edition

• Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0679765891
• ISBN 13: 9780679765899
• Binding: Paperback