ISBN: 9781946830319

Jon Davis directs his keen eye toward the ironies on which this life so often depends—the failures of language, the violence of nature, the indifference of death. “Is that what spirit is?” the poet wonders, considering the nature of birds, the thrasher, the finch “humping in the eaves. Gathering straw and string. / Laying the griefstruck delicate eggs.” As we read, we find our own eyes grow sharper, better able to take it all in.