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Dick
Davis was
born in Portsmouth, England, in 1945, and educated at the universities
of Cambridge (B.A. and M.A. in English Literature) and Manchester (PhD.
in Medieval Persian Literature). He has taught at the universities of
Tehran (Iran), Durham (U.K.), Newcastle (U.K.), and California (Santa
Barbara) and is currently Professor of Persian at Ohio State University.
He lived for 8 years in Iran, as well as for periods in Greece and
Italy. As author, translator or editor, he has produced 18 books; as
well as academic works he has published translations from Italian
(prose) and Persian (prose and verse)
and numerous volumes of his own poetry, including A New Kind of Love,
Devices and Desires, Covenant and Touchwood.
He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of
Literature.
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Desire
Dick
Davis
Impertinent
Desire likes novelty
And
has to check it out - goes sniffing where
She
has no business to, extends a paw
By
way of tentative experiment,
Pats,
and withdraws, pretends indifference,
Then
pounces. Something valuable could be
In
pieces soon. Think, Kitty, what it is
That
curiosity accomplishes.
© 2001 by Dick Davis
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Volume
II Issue III