Traveling Mercies - Softcover

Williams, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0914086987 ISBN 13: 9780914086987

Publisher: Alice James Books, 1993

Synopsis

Traveling Mercies begins with the poet's family--those who emigrated from Lebanon, and those who remained behind, enduring their homeland's civil strife. His affinity extends naturally into intimate poems about Central American refugees with whom he has worked and Native American children who were his students. Whether he writes a transparent lyric, a resonant narrative, or a poem that proceeds through a series of cathartic images that can bring to mind Lorca's notion of duende, the language sings.

About this title

About the Author:

Williams teaches in the Performance Studies program at Victoria University, Melbourne. He is also a theater director.

Review:

After Banking Hours
After The Market
After The Sumpul Massacre
Almost One
Available Light
Breath
Bright Weight And Sight
Collusion
Come Down With Me From Lebanon
Constellations
A Dream About My Grandfather's Life
Ecology
A Face
For My Grandmother
Further Arguments Against The War
Head O'falls
Homage To Oscar Romero
In Exile
In Memory
In Memory Of Maura Clarke And All The Others
In Praise Of The Potato
Keeping Watch
Lasts
The Loom
Mantle Of Light
A Mirror In The Karentina
My Grandmother And The Dirbakeh
My Great-uncle's Broken Song
Offering
Outdoor Movies At The State Park
Privacy
Pueblo Day School
Recognition
Rio Escondido
Security Forces
Seeds And Names
A Silence
Sojourner's Air
Southside
A Tree By The Water/saltatory Process
The Violin Maker
-- Table of Poems from Poem FinderŪ

About this edition

• Publisher: Alice James Books
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0914086987
• ISBN 13: 9780914086987
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 80