An edition of The lost body of childhood (1979)
The lost body of childhood
poems
By David Dayton
Publish Date
1979
Publisher
Copper Beech Press,distributed by the New York State Small Press Association
Language
eng
Pages
56
Description:
A collection of 31 poems by a young man who has supplanted the dogmas of his fundamentalist Christian parents with a somber but good-humored faith in the consolation to be found in poetry. The ordering of the poems traces a coming-of-age arc, from a farewell to family and childhood, through a search for love and meaning, to finding himself at peace, content to share quiet reflections shaped by empathy, wit, and sensuous appreciation.
subjects: poetry, spirituality, coming-of-age, young adult, Poetry (poetic works by one author)
People: Norman O. Brown, Theodore Roethke, Raymond Carver
Places: Kansas, Ithaca New York
Times: 1970-1980