In the kingdom of the ditch : poems / by Todd Davis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Davis, Todd.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry.

American literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (112 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

East Lansing, MI : Michigan State University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In poetry that is at once accessible and finely crafted, Todd Davis maps the mysterious arc between birth and death, celebrating the beauty and pain of our varied entrances and exits, while taking his readers into the deep forests and waterways of the northeastern United States. With an acute sensibility for language unlike any other working poet, Davis captures the smallest nuances in the flowers, trees, and animals he encounters through a daily life spent in the field. Davis draws upon stories and myths from Christian, Transcendental, and Buddhist traditions to explore the intricacies

Contents:

Contents; I.; Taxonomy; Perspective; A Consideration of the Word "Home"; Consciousness: An Assay; Dona Nobis Pacem; Seeing Things; The Consolation of Wind; Limbo; Deer Dreaming Me; Imago Dei; Midrash; A Mennonite in the Garden; Fishing for Large Mouth in a Strip-Mining Reclamation Pond near Lloydsville, Pennsylvania; What Lives in the Wake of Our Sleep; Two Sounds after an October Storm; Resurrection: A Field Note; Morning Poem; The Knowledge of the Lord; The Gospel of Beauty; Brushwolf; Vigil; Letter to Dave B. with May's Insatiable Hunger Tagging Along

Upon Looking Down onto the Top of Your Head Where the Hair Has Gone White Atrial Fibrillation; What We Do while We're Dying; Begging Bowl; Nurse Log; Thinking of Li Po while Fishing the Little J; What I Told My Sons aft er My Father Died; II.; Thoreau Casts a Line in the Merrimack; Thoreau Hears the Last Warbler at the End of September; Dreaming the Dark Smell of Bear; Thoreau Considers a Stone; Emptying the Bedpan; Give Us This Day; Psalm Written the Last Week of December; Thoreau Dreams of Margaret Fuller Three Days after Her Death; In the Clear-cut; The Virtues of Indolence

Offering, as One Example, the Satisfaction of the Bee Thoreau Surveys the Ice; In the Kingdom of the Ditch; Heaven Come Flying; Thoreau, in Death; Consecrated; III.; Not Writing, Then Writing Again; Hermetic; Hawks Flying; When the Body Is Absent; Coal; Three Songs for Flannery O'Connor; Theophany; Ordinary Time; Spring Melt; The Sound of Sunlight; Letter to Dave B. from the Karen Noonan Center on the Chesapeake Bay; Last of the Sea; Missing Boy; Apophatic; Most of What Is Written Is Simply Grief; Heliotropic; The Poet Stumbles upon a Buddha in Gamelands 158 above Tipton, Pennsylvania

Crow Counsels Me in the Ways of LoveDeposition; Perigee; Somnambulance; Transfiguration; Last Bones of Winter; Umbilical; Poem on the Anniversary of My Father's Diagnosis with Pancreatic Cancer; A Prayer for My Sons, after a Line of Reported Conversation by the Poet William Blake to a Child Seated Next to Him at a Dinner Party; Meditation on Hunger at 2 a.m.; I'll Catch You Up; Acknowledgments; About the Author

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-62895-043-9

1-60917-356-2

OCLC:

847007071