Length1h 47m
About this audiobook
In his seventh poetry collection, <b>Jon Davis</b> exhibits the range and mastery that is the result of fifty years of study, teaching, and practice. <i>Above the Bejeweled City</i> opens and closes with homages to Federico Garcia Lorca’s dream-struck ballad “Romance Sonámbulo.” In between, he inhabits what the philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty calls the “inexplicable existence” that marks our passage here on Earth.
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Part absurdist, part satirist, part tender correspondent, Davis writes in the slipstream of writers like Joyce, Beckett, Parra, and Plath. In an age that calls out for hopeful verse, Above the Bejeweled City offers, instead, a treatise on defeat and despair—and on how letting go is a way of holding on.
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Audiobook details
GenrePoetry
Length1 hr 47 mins
Narrated byJon Davis
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateApr 1, 2022
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Intro
25Westernciv
2Orality
26Novelist
3Rain
27Thegoldenwire
4Thewind
28Wakingfromwakingfromadream
5Bionote
29Brief
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6Offrogorfish
30Monktrane
7UsualDance
31Poet 65
8Eveningmilanfashionweek
32Ondisappointment
9Acatechism
33Thepoet
10Monkscrush
34Manatees
11Photographprisoncampiraq 2003
35Solstice
12Chooseyourownamerica
36Stateoftheunion
13Drivingutah
37Endingonadrawingbyrichardtuttle
14Thegift
38Gratitude
15Liminal
39Afterthreenightssleepinginthehospitalparkinglot
16Lingualfraught
40Theerosthatcampsontheedgeofthevalleyofdeathistheonlyeros
17Editor
41Inthetumultuousdawn
18Proofsheet
42Thebodyisthesiteofdiscipline
19Monkplaysellington
43Soundings
20Breeze
44Odetothecoronavirus
21Fashionreport
45Vintage
22Amoresperros
46Theblossomingdark
23Thecliffsofmoher
47Theghostofdenisjohnson
24Theisland
48Abovethebejeweledcity
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