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Above the Bejeweled City

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Above the Bejeweled City

By Jon DavisNarrated by Jon Davis

Above the Bejeweled City

Length1h 47m

About this audiobook

In his seventh poetry collection, Jon Davis exhibits the range and mastery that is the result of fifty years of study, teaching, and practice. Above the Bejeweled City opens and closes with homages to Federico Garcia Lorca' s dream-struck ballad " Romance Soná mbulo." In between, he inhabits what the philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty calls the " inexplicable existence" that marks our passage here on Earth. 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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