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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781438003321

Autore

Davis Todd F. <1965->

Titolo

The least of these [[electronic resource] ] : poems / / by Todd Davis

Pubbl/distr/stampa

East Lansing, : Michigan State University Press, c2010

ISBN

1-62895-147-8

1-60917-193-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (140 p.)

Soggetti

Christian poetry, American

American poetry - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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