Wow! eBook
Preliminary Report
Author(s): Jon Davis (Author)
- Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
- Publication Date: 12 Aug. 2010
- Language: English
- Print length: 96 pages
- ISBN-10: 1556593155
- ISBN-13: 9781556593154
Book Description
“Davis is as good as DeLillo at playing off our internal hunger for meaning against surface senselessness. And Davis catches the surface brilliantly.”—American Book Review
Punctuated by subversive humor, verbal theatrics, and moments of strange, luminous beauty, Davis’ clear, unsentimental poems are meditations and mediations on contemporary existence and the unreliability of language, emotions, and the memory to gather it all in.
Jon Davis, author of five collections of poetry, earned his MFA from the University of Montana. He has received a Lannan Literary Award and currently teaches at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Editorial Reviews
Review
“[Davis’s] voice remains among the sharpest and most unique in contemporary poetry.” –The Independent “Davis’s poems so deeply probe the human condition that we find ourselves lost in new, perplexing, and unidentifiable territories.”–Manoa “Davis is as good a DeLillo at playing off our internal hunger for meaning against suface senselessness. And Davis catches the surface brilliantly.”–American Book Review “I treasure this book. I keep it next to me. I read it over and over.” –Field
About the Author
Jon Davis received his MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Montana, where he was editor of CutBank. He has published five collections of poetry, including Scrimmage of Appetite, for which he was awarded a Lannan Literary Award. Since 1990 he has taught at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
