Southern poetry with both humanistic and naturalistic tones; a vividly detailed look at life, nature and the South.
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I love the poems in Trickles from a Dry Well. James V. Davis strikes me as doing for the Southern landscape what Robert Frost did for New England. He is a master at the expression of human sentiment without sentimentalilty, and frankly, he is much too modest: his well was never dry. -- Richard Waller, poet, artist, musician
In his new book of poetry, Trickles from a Dry Well, Jimmy displays his deep feeling for man and nature. He is indeed a knowledgeable craftsman of words and he paints pictures for us that are profoundly moving. -- Lamarr Parr, author
James V. Davis in Trickles from a Dry Well has written poems that invoke the Southern landscape and give insight into his view of the world and therefore a better view for the reader. Davis is a compassionate and understandable poet -- hard to find these days -- with a strong, insightful spin to his words. A pleasure to read. -- Roberta George, Founding Editor, Snake Nation Press
Like all poets, Davis employs the items and words around him to bear the best testimony to his observation. In this spirit, one takes even the first word of the title -- Trickles -- and notices how it can take on the wonder that occasionally comes when repeating a word until it is shocked out of its familiar unstrangeness. These poems, many of which are set in ordinary South Georgia places and situations, do the same, leaving the reader noticing things that only a painter or a curious child might. Davis courts topics that in the hands of a lesser poet -- or simply in the hands of someone with less wisdom -- would splay towards greeting card sentimentality, or even towards a cynical detachment. He captures the paradox of life, where we stand between some kind of loneliness and another kind of redemption. -- Brian Ferguson-Avery, Poet, Author, Director of Creative Writing, Georgia Southwestern State University
Reading Trickles from a Dry Well is like seeing life through the eyes of James V. Davis and realizing what you have missed. Startling imagery and language set to soothing music. -- Janice Daugherty, author of Whistle, Dark of the Moon, and other novels and short stories
Remarkable! This sepia album documents the journey of a poet through the fading landscape of his beloved South. Spanning the better part of the 20th century, these snapshots flash upon the retina of the inward eye, the bliss of solitude. -- O. Victor Miller, author of One Man's Junk and other stories, and teacher of Literature and Creative Writing at Darton College
In his new book of poetry, Trickles from a Dry Well, Jimmy displays his deep feeling for man and nature. He is indeed a knowledgeable craftsman of words and he paints pictures for us that are profoundly moving. -- Lamarr Parr, author
James V. Davis in Trickles from a Dry Well has written poems that invoke the Southern landscape and give insight into his view of the world and therefore a better view for the reader. Davis is a compassionate and understandable poet -- hard to find these days -- with a strong, insightful spin to his words. A pleasure to read. -- Roberta George, Founding Editor, Snake Nation Press
Like all poets, Davis employs the items and words around him to bear the best testimony to his observation. In this spirit, one takes even the first word of the title -- Trickles -- and notices how it can take on the wonder that occasionally comes when repeating a word until it is shocked out of its familiar unstrangeness. These poems, many of which are set in ordinary South Georgia places and situations, do the same, leaving the reader noticing things that only a painter or a curious child might. Davis courts topics that in the hands of a lesser poet -- or simply in the hands of someone with less wisdom -- would splay towards greeting card sentimentality, or even towards a cynical detachment. He captures the paradox of life, where we stand between some kind of loneliness and another kind of redemption. -- Brian Ferguson-Avery, Poet, Author, Director of Creative Writing, Georgia Southwestern State University
Reading Trickles from a Dry Well is like seeing life through the eyes of James V. Davis and realizing what you have missed. Startling imagery and language set to soothing music. -- Janice Daugherty, author of Whistle, Dark of the Moon, and other novels and short stories
Remarkable! This sepia album documents the journey of a poet through the fading landscape of his beloved South. Spanning the better part of the 20th century, these snapshots flash upon the retina of the inward eye, the bliss of solitude. -- O. Victor Miller, author of One Man's Junk and other stories, and teacher of Literature and Creative Writing at Darton College
From the Author
For the most part, these poems were conceived while walking in the woods, fields and on the back roads of Southwest Georgia. They reflect not only the things that I have seen, but the mental images they have created. The section titled TRIUMPH celebrates the courage with which my quadriplegic wife has addressed her disability, and the impact of her courage on my own life.
The poems are not intended to teach anything, or to covert anybody. They are offered, solely and hopefully, for the pleasure of the reader.
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