In an age when many find themselves disconnected from the natural world, celebrated poet Todd Davis offers the possibilities of reconnection, of listening to the earths labored breathing, to the thoughts of other-than-human animals and the languages trees speak. In thirty new poems, and with ample selections from his previous seven books, Daviss roots run deep in Rust-Belt Appalachia, attending to the harmed but healing landscape, the people whose lives are too often neglected, and the looming threat of climate collapse and extinction. Orion Magazine likens Daviss work to Wendell Berry and Mary Oliver, as he continues to demonstrate what one reviewer describes as his knowledge of Latin names, common names, habitats and habits . . . steeped in the exactness of the earth and the science that unfolds in wildness. Known for both narrative and lyrical impulses, Davis asks readers to acknowledge their kinship with all living beings, which demands some grieving for past sins but also suggests a way toward restoration.
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Weight: 454g
Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
Publication Date: 01 Aug 2024
Publisher: Michigan State University Press
Publication City/Country: United States
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781611865103
About Todd Davis
Todd Davis is the author of seven full-length collections of poetryCoffin Honey Native Species Winterkill In the Kingdom of the Ditch The Least of These Some Heaven and Ripeas well as of a limited-edition chapbook Household of Water Moon and Snow. He edited the nonfiction collection Fast Break to Line Break: Poets on the Art of Basketball and coedited the anthologies A Literary Field Guide to Northern Appalachia and Making Poems: Forty Poems with Commentary by the Poets. His writing has won the Midwest Book Award the Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Prize the Chautauqua Editors Prize the Bloomsburg University Book Prize and the Foreword INDIES Book of the Year silver and bronze awards. His poems appear in such noted journals and magazines as American Poetry Review Alaska Quarterly Review Iowa Review North American Review Missouri Review Gettysburg Review Orion Prairie Schooner Southern Humanities Review Western Humanities Review Verse Daily and Poetry Daily. He is an emeritus fellow of the Black Earth Institute and teaches environmental studies creative writing and American literature at Pennsylvania State Universitys Altoona College.