Ripe: Poems [Paperback]

Todd Davis (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0933087764 | ISBN-13: 978-0933087767 | Publication Date: January 1, 2002

Poetry. "RIPE, a strong first collection, is about as close to the earth as poetry can get. It is filled with loving awareness of the poet's immediate world, and all that lives for and around him. `All I ever wished for,' [Davis] writes, `was the light of fields in late August, / third mowing just cut, / old apple trees left behind.' All we wish for is poetry as sensitive and moving as RIPE gives us"--Lucien Stryk

Editorial Reviews

Review

Lovely and lush. Todd Davis’s poems gave me quite the boost on a down evening, reaffirming what Codrescu said about poems being the only reliable source of information. At least the information that is vital to me. Davis is a good poet which makes him a rare bird indeed —Jim Harrison RIPE, a strong first collection, is about as close to the earth as poetry can get. It is filled with loving awareness of the poet’s immediate world, and all that lives for and around him. “All I ever wished for,” he writes, “was the light of fields in late August, / third mowing just cut, / old apple trees left behind.” All we wish for is poetry as sensitive and moving as Ripe gives us. —Lucien Stryk -- Review

About the Author

Todd Davis was born and raised in Elkhart, Indiana, the son of a veterinarian father and a Methodist minister mother. He is an associate professor of English at Goshen College in Goshen, Indian; he is teaching this year (2002-2003) in the Iowa Writing Program at the University of Iowa. He studied with Zen Buddhist poet Lucien Stryk and has published widely. He is married to Shelly Davis, and they have two sons. This is his first book. It is in the Midwest Writers Series from Bottom Dog Press.

Product Details

• Paperback: 87 pages
• Publisher: Bottom Dog Press (January 1, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0933087764
• ISBN-13: 978-0933087767
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.8 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,421,132 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Todd Davis, winner of the Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Prize, teaches creative writing, environmental studies, and American literature at Penn State University's Altoona College. He is the author of three books of poetry--The Least of These, Some Heaven, and Ripe--and co-editor of Making Poems: 40 Poems with Commentary by the Poets. His poems have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and have appeared in such journals and magazines as The North American Review, The Iowa Review, Indiana Review, The Gettysburg Review, West Branch, River Styx, Green Mountains Review, and Image. Davis's poetry has been featured by Garrison Keillor on The Writer's Almanac and by Ted Kooser in the syndicated newspaper column, American Life in Poetry. In addition to his creative work, Davis is author or co-editor of six scholarly books, including Kurt Vonnegut's Crusade, or How a Postmodern Harlequin Preached a New Kind of Humanism and Mapping the Ethical Turn: A Reader in Ethics, Culture, and Literary Theory.