The least of these : poems / by Todd Davis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Davis, Todd F., 1965-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christian poetry, American.

American poetry--20th century.

American poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (140 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In his third collection of poems Todd Davis advises us that ""the only corruption comes / in not loving this life enough."" Over the course of this masterful and heartfelt book it becomes clear that Davis not only loves the life he's been given, but also believes that the ravishing desire of this world can offer hope, and even joy, however it might be negotiated. Drawing upon a range of stories from the Christian, Transcendental, and Asian traditions, as well as from his own deep understanding of the natural world, Davis explores the connection between the visible and invisible

Contents:

Contents; Last of December; I.; And the Dead Shall Be Raised Incorruptible; A Memory of Heaven; None of This Could Be Metaphor; The Face of Jesus; Stem Cell; Confession; Tequila; Aubade; Craving; Doctrine; Letter to Galway Kinnell at the End of September; Half in the Sun; Weather Report; My Family Sees My Empty Hands; Forgive Me; The Secrets of Baking Soda; What if in the beginning; Invasive; A Psalm for My Children; Our Forgetting; On the eve of the Iraqi Invasion, my wife says; Jonah Begins to Think like a Prophet; The Fish in the Cage; An Island Mother Speaks; Black Water; Obituary; Veil

Again, at Daybreak Praying; II.; Happiness; Like a Thief; Democracy; The Blessing of the Body, Which Is the House of Prayer; Aesthetics; The Rhododendron; Questions for the Artist; The River; The Sunflower; Dryad; Gastronomy; Christmas Eve; Winter Morning; Responsibility; Farm Wives; Note to Walt Whitman; Shibboleth; After It Rained All Night, She Said He Woke Up Dead; Entering the Meadow above Three Springs Run; Some Say the Soul Makes the Living Weep; Neither Here Nor There; Why We Don't Die; The Kingdom of God Is like This; The Saints of April; Migration; Accident; The Least of These

Happy for This Omen; Nicodemus's Complaint; Last Supper; For My Father's Death, Before It Happens; III.; April Poem; Turkey Hunting; My Son, in Love for the First Time; Vernal; Theodicy; The World Can Be a Gentle Place; The Night after the Day the Clover Blooms; July Finds the Soul like a Ripe Berry; Puberty; Keeping Secrets; Persephone Dreams of Thomas Hart Benton; Upon Finding Something Worthy of Praise; Field Mouse; A German Farmer Thinks of Spring; Necessity; Far Afield; Consider; Note to My Wife, with Hopes She Won't Need to Read It for Some Time; Now When We Kiss; Barn Swallows

Omnivore Spared; Cows Running; The Sleep of Pears; Salvage; Matins; Indian Summer; Yellow Light; What I Wanted to Tell the Nurse When She Pricked My Thumb; Solvitur Ambulando; Ananias Lays Hands on Saul; Apology to Crows; Bacchanalian Interlude; House of the World; Golden; Tree of Heaven; Ascension; Acknowledgments; About the Author

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-62895-147-8

1-60917-193-4

OCLC:

774285427