Richard Davi

A Gathering of Quiet Hours Richard Davi

No sweeping epics here, these collected poems are essentially lyrical vignettes, mood-evocations drawn from experience, imagination, and an introspective sifting through the human contentions and passions. Melancholic in tone (even the few comic pieces spring from irony) the book's motifs bypass the transient social and political issues, pursuing the ineffable, beauty's elusive order, the flickering lights in the darkness of life's angst. The four-part, sub-titled, format takes the basic themes through their separate perspectives, and the attentive reader will find several - if subtle - threads, echoes, in the book's construction, supporting a sense of progression and closure.