A GATHERING OF QUIET HOURS

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.

Born in 1935 in Brooklyn, New York, where he still resides, Richard Davi made poetry his avocation when, despite a tenuous scholastic background, the promptings of self-expression compelled a life-long response.  So the slow accumulation of poems finally shaped themselves into this life's opus.  A dozen or so pieces have appeared in various anthologies, such as The Clover Collection of Verse, The Shore poetry Anthology, New Dawn Publication, and Poetry Press.