The Nail in the Tree
Essays on Art, Violence, and Childhood
Will be published approx. on 1. May 2020
Book
Paperback/Softback
153 pages
978-1-946482-26-6 (ISBN)
Description
The Nail in the Tree meditates on crucial subjects in devastating circumstances, exploring how childhood can be violent and generative, how trauma integrates in art and daily life, and what the artist's role is. In this part memoir, part art-historical treatise, Carol Ann Davis narrates her experience of raising two sons in Sandy Hook, Connecticut, on the day of and during the aftermath of the shooting there. She describes revelations her children come to in the weeks that follow, quietly echoes the words of a principal on that day, and recounts painful series of texts and calls to further and further distant family members. She writes in beautiful, devastating, poetic language.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 191 mm
Width: 130 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
200 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-946482-26-6 (9781946482266)
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Person
Carol Ann Davis is a poet, essayist, and author of the poetry collections THE NAIL IN THE TREES: ESSAYS ON ART, VIOLENCE, AND CHILDOOD (Tupelo Press, 2020), PSALM (Tupello Press, 2007), and Atlas Hour (2011). The daughter of one of the NASA engineers who returned the Apollo 13 crew from the moon, she grew up on the east coast of Florida the youngest of seven children, then studied poetry at Vassar College and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. A former longtime editor of the literary journal Crazyhorse, she is Professor of English at Fairfield University, where she is founding director of Poetry in Communities, an initiative that brings writing workshops to communities hit by sudden or systemic violence. She lives in Newtown, CT, with her husband and two sons.