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Todd F. Davis is Associate Professor of English at Penn State at Altoona

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[from back cover, quote by Julia Kasdorf] Here are surprisingly plain-spoken poems of place and the middle of a man's life hung on the horns of the millennium. This book speaks from silent spaces--forests and struggling family farms, inarticulate anger and raw fear. Subject matters here and the language is necessarily transactional, haunted by all kinds of violence though never totally without hope. As such, these poems will be of use in our troubled times, like the "Snow Angels," which Davis describes, that vanish "like a blessing to be endured."… (meer)
 
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UnivMenno | Sep 10, 2008 |
[from back cover, quote by Julia Kasdorf] "Todd Davis is an American poet who follows Wendell Berry, Mary Oliver, and James Wright in subject and style; yet the fields, forests, and Midwestern small towns of which he writes are infused with Davis's own faith. Here is faith in the rhythms of nature, in the continuity of familiar connection, and in the inevitable cycles of transgression and grace... These poems seem to confess a faith in faith itself, written with a clarity that betrays the author's believe in the ability of language to carry all our imperfect meanings."… (meer)
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UnivMenno | Sep 10, 2008 |
[back cover] I love the integrity, sincerity, and wisdom of Todd Davis's poems. He is unafraid to write out of a deep faith--both religious faith and faith in the natural world. In a poetic landscape that often seems biased toward the cynical and clver, Davis's poems unapologetically strive for the mountaintop. They make clear that the natural world still has a few things to teach us, or it reminds us of things we once knew but have forgotten. They sing with imagistic intensity, and their hard-hitting rhythms accentuate the world's natural pulse. The restraint and humility of these poems belies their underlying passion and commitment. They are pure and sharp, so sharp they cut. --Jim Daniels… (meer)
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UnivMenno | Jan 2, 2010 |

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