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The writing in this remarkable collection makes such masterful use
of bones as metaphor that the book reads as much like a single long
poem as it does a bringing together of individual lyrics. Open the
book anywhere and enjoy a small gem of poetry, or read the whole
book-even in a single sitting-and enjoy a moving and brilliant long
poem.
Four diverse Texas poets are presented in the anthology.
Richard Hugo has selected William Virgil Davis's One Way to
Reconstruct the Scene as the 1979 winner of the Yale Series of
Younger Poets competition. In his foreword to the volume Hugo says:
"William Virgil Davis is a poet who, when he writes, contends with
a loving self who wants to render the world as found. His battle is
the classic one, the memory versus the imagination. . . . 'Memory
is the first property of loss, ' Davis tells us, and that may be
true. At least it is worth considering. Certainly a scene, no
matter how initially unattractive, reconstructed lovingly in active
language posing as passive recall is a true property of gain. Davis
believes in and works to create a world we can humanely attend the
second time around, and his poems often provide that second
chance."
William Virgil Davis is a widely published, award-winning poet.
Among his many honors, fellowships, and awards are the Yale Series
of Younger Poets Prize, the New Criterion Poetry Prize, and the
Helen C. Smith Memorial Award for Poetry. His poems regularly
appear in leading journals, both in this country and abroad. His
Dismantlements of Silence: Poems Selected and New brings together a
generous selection of Davis's poetry to date. It includes samples
of his early uncollected work, poems from his previously published
books, and selections from his most recently published work.
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