One Way to Reconstruct the Scene (Signed First Edition)

DAVIS, William Virgil

ISBN 10: 0300025033 / ISBN 13: 9780300025033

Published by Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 1980

About this Item

First edition. Softcover. Simultaneous paperback issue of this collection of poems which is part of the Yale Series of Younger Poets. Includes a foreword by Richard Hugo. An about very good copy in wrappers with some foxing and wear. Signed and nicely inscribed by Davis on the front free endpaper to poet Linda Pastan. A nice association copy.

Seller Inventory # 155560

Bibliographic Details

• Title: One Way to Reconstruct the Scene (Signed First Edition)
• Publisher: Yale University Press, New Haven, CT
• Publication Date: 1980
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0300025033
• ISBN 13: 9780300025033
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Poetry

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Synopsis

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."