There is an appealing self-assurance in these poems---a poet is in charge though clearly aware of the slippery nature of experience. The poems tend to be narrative, often containing gratifying twists at the end, as in “He Caught Everything” in which the poet’s ambidextrous father, after we’re told of how he alternated the use of his hands in a variety of ways, the poem concludes with telling how he saved the day in a fire at the expense of both hands. There are many fine poems her: in an intriguing fantasy, “Romeo Gets There Firs,” we see Romeo in the after life waiting for his lover---a fascinating idea which is managed well. “The Fist Wife’s Lament in Late Winter” is a “left-handed elegy,” another fascinating idea in which the first wife speaks of her former husband who has died.
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Susan Davis does everything a poet should do in her first book of poems: Davis is clearly and accomplished poet. --Michael McFee, pre-publication review, June, 2006
Susan Davis does everything a poet should do in her first book of poems: Davis is clearly an accomplished poet. --Marisa de los Santos, pre-publication review, June, 2006
The poems in “Gathering Sound” are fearlessly attentive; her poems answer loss with hope, limn grief with beauty. --James Harms, pre-publication review, June 2006
Susan Davis does everything a poet should do in her first book of poems: Davis is clearly an accomplished poet. --Marisa de los Santos, pre-publication review, June, 2006
The poems in “Gathering Sound” are fearlessly attentive; her poems answer loss with hope, limn grief with beauty. --James Harms, pre-publication review, June 2006
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"Gathering Sound" is the winner of the 2005 Rhea & Seymour Gorsline Poetry Competition held annually by Bedbug Press, Inc.
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poems full of grace,
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Again and again, I find myself returning to Susan Davis's fearless poems for solace in the face of impossible grief. Her intrepid willingness to pay attention, to be present in her life however difficult the circumstances, renders a sense of hope that's hard-earned and luminous.
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Needless to say I liked it -- a lot !!!,
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If you are a poetry lover, you will enjoy immensely wrapping yourself in Ms Davis' rich images and image concoctions. If you are new to poetry but think you might like to dip your toe in that ocean, this will be a lovely lifeboat, leading you into a world of rhythm and image. A wonderful collection -- I wish she'd write another.
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