{"product_id":"one-way-to-reconstruct-the-scene-9780300025033","title":"One Way to Reconstruct the Scene","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): William Virgil Davis\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Yale University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Yale University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: American - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRichard Hugo has selected William Virgil Davis's \u003ci\u003eOne Way to Reconstruct the Scene\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Yale University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47615382454423,"sku":"9780300025033","price":2145.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780300025033.webp?v=1775100437","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/one-way-to-reconstruct-the-scene-9780300025033","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}