About
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.
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Reviews
"[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 surface senselessness. And Davis catches the surface brilliantly."
American Book Review