
In his selected and new poetry volume ACADEMY OF DREAMS, Glover Davis transports a reader with precision and grace. These are gorgeous poems of masterful pacing and sound, carrying us deeply into a wide span of considerations - earthbound and ethereal at once. Reckoning with mysteries of time and haunting legacies, never abandoning a compassion broad enough to contemplate even an anonymous graffiti artist drawing "energy from a desire/for rituals," the great calm and care of a lifetime of profound reflective insight rivets every line. For decades Glover Davis has been writing a poetry that commands traditional as well as open forms, one informing the other-a poetry both myth-driven, and a vision anchored in experience. Davis's poems offer elegies and insights with a clarity of imagination and deep humanity. From his tour-de-force nine section poem "August Fires" in the '70s to a remarkable section of new poems, Academy of Dreams is a masterwork.
- | Author: Glover Davis
- | Publisher: Lamar University Literary Press
- | Publication Date: Apr 11, 2022
- | Number of Pages: 170 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback/Poetry
- | ISBN-10: 1942956959
- | ISBN-13: 9781942956952
- Author:
- Glover Davis
- Publisher:
- Lamar University Literary Press
- Publication Date:
- Apr 11, 2022
- Number of pages:
- 170 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback/Poetry
- ISBN-10:
- 1942956959
- ISBN-13:
- 9781942956952