Over thirty years in the making, Frank Davey's careful archaeology of the catalogue of innocence his youthful imagination assembled growing up in and immediately after the Second World War is a work of astonishment. This is no lyrical work of sentimental nostalgia, no attempt to return to a romanticized "simpler past," no rediscovery of "the child within," but rather a careful reconstruction of "the child without." The reader moves through these poems, neither sanitized nor updated by their passage through experience, as one would through a gallery installation of intensely personal epiphanies, both frightening and ecstatic, lucid and obscure.
LoC Classification |
PR9199.3.D28B33 2005 |
Dewey |
811/.54 |
Nationality |
Canada |
Pub Place |
Vancouver |
Cover Price |
$12.95 |
No. of Pages |
128 |
Height x Width |
8.1
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5.5
inch |
First Edition |
Yes |
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