Belonging: Poems

Front Matter

B E L O N G I N G You are reading copyrighted material published by Ohio University Press/Swallow Press. Unauthorized posting, copying, or distributing of this work except as permitted under U.S. copyright law is illegal and injures the author and publisher. You are reading copyrighted material published by Ohio University Press/Swallow Press. Unauthorized posting, copying, or distributing of this work except as permitted under U.S. copyright law is illegal and injures the author and publisher. B E L O N G I N G poems D I C K D AV I S Swallow Press / Ohio University Press Athens You are reading copyrighted material published by Ohio University Press/Swallow Press. Unauthorized posting, copying, or distributing of this work except as permitted under U.S. copyright law is illegal and injures the author and publisher. Swallow Press / Ohio University Press, Athens, Ohio ©  by Dick Davis Printed in the United States of America All rights reserved Swallow Press / Ohio University Press books are printed on acid-free paper ƒ ™               Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Davis, Dick, – Belonging : poems / Dick Davis. p. cm.  --- (alk. paper) —  --- (pbk. : alk. paper) I. Title. .   '.—dc  Acknowledgments Some of the poems in this book have appeared in Hudson Review (“Iran Twenty Years Ago,” “Shadows,” “Night Thoughts,” “Haydn and Hokusai,” “A Monorhyme for the Shower,” “Farewell to the Mentors,” “Live Happily,” “Out of Time,” “To the Persian Poets”), Dark Horse (“Gongora,” “Victorian”), Formalist (“What”), Hellas (“Dido”), Sewanee Theological Review (“Political Asylum”), Tundra (“Checking Out While Checking In”), New Criterion (“Guides for the Soul”), Threepenny Review (“Aubade”), Yale Review (“A Petrarchan Sonnet,” “A Se Stesso”), Profile, Full Face (“Hibernation ”), and Critical Quarterly (“Teresia Sherley”). “In the Restaurant” and “Desire” appeared in the online journal failbetter. “West South West” was commissioned by the BBC, as part of its celebration of National Poetry Day, and broadcast on October , . “A Monorhyme for the Shower” appeared as a broadside published by the Aralia Press, in June . You are reading copyrighted material published by Ohio University Press/Swallow Press. Unauthorized posting, copying, or distributing of this work except as permitted under U.S. copyright law is illegal and injures the author and publisher. To the memory of Edgar Bowers You are reading copyrighted material published by Ohio University Press/Swallow Press. Unauthorized posting, copying, or distributing of this work except as permitted under U.S. copyright law is illegal and injures the author and publisher. You are reading copyrighted material published by Ohio University Press/Swallow Press. Unauthorized posting, copying, or distributing of this work except as permitted under U.S. copyright law is illegal and injures the author and publisher. ...