LEADER 04259nam 2200565 a 450 001 9910781438003321 005 20230725053858.0 010 $a1-62895-147-8 010 $a1-60917-193-4 035 $a(CKB)2550000000065541 035 $a(EBL)1672272 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000551608 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11338744 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000551608 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10526046 035 $a(PQKB)11668361 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3338203 035 $a(OCoLC)774285427 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse9400 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3338203 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10514594 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000065541 100 $a20090415d2010 uy p 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe least of these$b[electronic resource] $epoems /$fby Todd Davis 210 $aEast Lansing $cMichigan State University Press$dc2010 215 $a1 online resource (140 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-87013-875-8 327 $aContents; 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 327 $aAgain, 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 327 $aHappy 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 327 $aOmnivore 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 330 $aIn 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 606 $aChristian poetry, American 606 $aAmerican poetry$y20th century 615 0$aChristian poetry, American. 615 0$aAmerican poetry 700 $aDavis$b Todd F.$f1965-$01463156 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910781438003321 996 $aThe least of these$93672382 997 $aUNINA