Still Working It Out
Poems
Published on 8. April 2014
80 pages
978-1-63087-355-4 (ISBN)
Description
In various voices and with a range of strategies, these poems speak of and into the collisions we experience day in and day out--collisions with nature, art, language, religion, family, imagination, new and old ways of seeing and navigating the world--collisions that result in loss and sadness, confusion and laughter, gratitude and amazement. Still Working It Out, a collection that moves freely between memory and invention, embodies a faithful struggle to attend to and engage life with all senses on high alert for what may crush or sustain or gloriously transfigure.
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Brad Davis is on the faculty of Pomfret School, a Connecticut boarding school, and has taught also at the College of the Holy Cross and Eastern Connecticut State University. He has published several books of poems, most recently Opening King David (2011), and edited the anthology Sunken Garden Poetry 1992-2011 (2012) for the twentieth anniversary of the Sunken Garden Poetry Festival.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Acknowledgments
- Part 1
- The Exhibit
- Time. Coffee. Rain
- Still Working It Out
- Love Song
- So It Goes
- Epithalamion
- Cosmos
- On the Way to Putnam
- Vocation
- From Here I Cannot Say What Kind It Is
- Port-au-Prince
- The Night I Walked Out
- Daylight Savings
- The Guineas of Gardiner Creek
- Gardiner Creek
- Part 2
- Fr. Nicholas
- Part 3
- Return to Coronado
- Quietly
- One A.M., Mid-January
- Toby
- Easter Sonnet
- Stepping Through Mercury
- July
- Compost
- Cloister
- Self Portrait w/ Icon
- The Yoke
- Mary
- How to Wait for the Second Coming
- What I Answered
- Part 4
- From the Inside
- In Your Absence
- Simple Enough
- January
- Wearing the Ashes
- On Little Boys & Their Guns
- Cecil McBee's Right Ear
- Instant Karma
- Washing Dishes After the Feast
- Self Portrait w/ Disposable Camera
- "Step away from the closing door"
- Hanami
