Davis McCombs
Davis McCombs is the author of two books of poetry, Ultima Thule (Yale, 2000) and Dismal Rock (Tupelo, 2007). He directs the Program in Creative Writing and Translation at the University of Arkansas.
Reading List
Deterred
And so I came to be the man who hunched at the desk under the lamp for six blind months and followed the loops of cursive spiraling backward like the song of a Wood Thrush to the creek below …
Gray Fox, A Resolution of Sorrow
WHEREAS, the fox would stand still blinking at the swingset’s blur among the leaves and ratcheting of chains and how by this we knew that she had mastered something of the twitch that deeply gripped her. WHEREAS, the fox would …