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The Patriot (The Contemporary Poetry Series) [Paperback]

Christopher Davis (Author)
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0820319910 978-0820319919 April 1, 1998
The Patriot is the chronicle of a deeply personal attempt to rebuild a sense of self and safety in an unstable environment. Christopher Davis's poems address destructive forces, including the murder of a younger brother and the impact of AIDS on modern gay culture. These elements blend with the dangers of a world in which love and death are cruelly inseparable, and in which the insinuations of consumer culture into the psyche destroy security, but in which dark humor and the beauty of imagery combat despair.

In language electric with imagination, these poems utter a mangled, stuttering, contemporary echo of Walt Whitman's poetry, cheated out of its joyous confidence but constructing, in the words of the author, a "weak bridge away from suicide."


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Arroyo Seco
Atlas Narcissus
A Babel Scraping His Blue Eye
Body And Land Are Not Different
Commencement Ode
Duende
A Fallen Candle At The Center Of Our Picnic
God's Cut-off Tv Screen's Vanishing Mirror Seems An Unshared Point
If You Love Something, Let It Go
In Effigy: 1. Hell
In Effigy: 2. God Against Christ
In Effigy: 3. Heaven
Lovesong To An Empty Room
A Mighty Pen Points Out A Private Eye?
Nevermore
The Patriot
Phaeton
Rapture
The Recessed Self As El Dorado
The Red Dust Flesh As Brand New Filter: 1. Arroyo Hondo
The Red Dust Flesh As Brand New Filter: 2. Kilkenny, Whittier, Idyllwi
The Red Dust Flesh As Brand New Filter: 3. Charlotte
The Red Dust Flesh As Brand New Filter: 4. Sangre De Cristo
The Red Dust Flesh As Brand New Filter: 5. Moreland
The Red Dust Flesh As Brand New Filter: 6. Wilbur
Savior Fatso, Semi-fascist
A Soft Mad Voice Through Black Lipstick
To One Dead Boy
To The Voice Of Hart Crane's Mother
A Virgin Nymphomaniac As Antenna
Aborted Fetus
Asking To Be Useful Somewhere Near The End
Atlas And Mary, If Thy Son Lives, Where?
A Costume Straitjacket's Black Sleeve In Armoire Shadows
Debt Is Survival's Ringing Phone
Dirge To Myself
Endlessly Rocking
Genesis
Good Friday
His Caul Put Down Outside His Tomb
How Can I Turn Off This Engine Now?
Let Go The Ghost Of Icarus
Little Crisis Framed In My Window
Loving This World Without Tenderness
Silent Hymn
A Soaking Flag
Sunday Afternoon, After A Funeral, One Can't Change
To The Consumer
To The Queen Of Tragedy
Trying Not To Tease Him
Tusks Of A Forklift, At Head-level, Prod Through Shadows
Voice Against Christ From Inside A Clock Mask
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

About the Author

Christopher Davis is an associate professor of creative writing at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He is the author of The Tyrant of the Past and the Slave of the Future, winner of the 1988 Associated Writing Programs Award for Poetry.

Product Details

  • Paperback: 112 pages
  • Publisher: University of Georgia Press (April 1, 1998)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0820319910
  • ISBN-13: 978-0820319919
  • Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.3 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 5.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,832,175 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Beautifully written prose that tugs at your every emotion., August 12, 1999
This review is from: The Patriot (The Contemporary Poetry Series) (Paperback)
In The Patriot, Christopher Davis has managed to express a wide range of feelings, never shutting us out, but inviting us to explore the feelings with him. I could not put it down.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Run Out And Buy This Book!, May 7, 1999
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So poignant and sexy are these poems that it is HARD for me to sit still and not run out and cruise the local park for other like minds in a swoon of poetic frenzy! In a time when poetry is as prim as it is sluggish, this book arrives like the Warholian banana that graces the cover of The Velvet Underground's debut album. A must read!
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