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 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.
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