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Informationen zum Autor Davis McCombs is the author of two previous collections of poetry. His first book, Ultima Thule , was chosen by W. S. Merwin as the winner of the 1999 Yale Series of Younger Poets. It was also selected as one of five finalists for the National Book Critics Circle Award. His second book, Dismal Rock (Tupelo Press), was awarded the Dorset Prize, the Eric Hoffer Award, and the Kentucky Literary Award. McCombs directs the Program in Creative Writing and Translation at the University of Arkansas. Klappentext Drawn from the rich folk traditions of his native Mammoth Cave region in Kentucky as well as the folklore of his adopted Ozark Mountains of Arkansas! the poems in Davis McCombs's third collection exist along the fraught lines where nature and agriculture collide or in those charged moments where modernity intrudes on an archaic world. Zusammenfassung Drawn from the rich folk traditions of his native Mammoth Cave region in Kentucky as well as the folklore of his adopted Ozark Mountains of Arkansas, the poems in Davis McCombs’s third collection exist along the fraught lines where nature and agriculture collide or in those charged moments where modernity intrudes on an archaic world.
