In 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 down many of life's possibilities and frees us from their
demands. The levity of some verses here is something of a departure
for Davis, but his insights can be mordant too, revealing
darknesses as often as they invoke frivolity. As Davis's readers
have come to expect, the poems in A Trick of Sunlight aim at the
aesthetic satisfactions that accompany accurate observations
expressed with wit, intelligence, and grace. But they achieve as
well an immediacy and rawness of vision that seem to belie his
careful craft.
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