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A Garland of Many Years

A Garland of Many Years

Davie, Donald

Hardcover

General Poetry

ISBN10: 082651507X
ISBN13: 9780826515070
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
Published: Nov 21 2005
Pages: 100
Weight: 1.02
Height: 0.56 Width: 7.18 Depth: 10.34
Language: English
The poems gathered here were composed by Donald Davie for his wife Doreen, to whom he was married and devoted for fifty years. The earliest of them were copied out by hand and presented to Doreen as a tribute on the occasion of her 54th birthday, and this garland was then added to over the years. Of the 43 poems, ten are published here for the first time, two others in new versions. They span the five decades of the couple's marriage, and because of this portray an enduring but complex relationship as it changes over time.

To some readers the poems will seem unusual as love poems because they do not idealize love and marriage. Their strength lies in their honesty and intimacy and in the openness to the pain and self-understanding that both ardor and conflict (We, we throve on friction) can produce. This is a relationship in which each knows the other too well to be assuaged by a sentimental lyricism.

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