Ten Questions for Jon Davis
[With apologies to Poets & Writers.] 1. How long did it take you to write Above the Bejeweled City? Ten years, though I was writing...
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Goiter, the Odd Word Game I Played with my Mother that Probably Explains a Lot About my Poetry
I don’t know how this game started or when exactly, though I was probably around ten years old. I’m guessing it started spontaneously,...
Link to Full Text of Scrimmage of Appetite
Every once in a while, I get a query about Scrimmage of Appetite, my second book, published by the University of Akron Press back in...
Bookworm Interview with Michael Silverblatt, June 15, 2000
https://www.kcrw.com/culture/shows/bookworm/jon-davis
On the Occasion of Arthur Sze's Sight Lines Being Longlisted for the National Book Award in Poetry
"This shift from critique of explanation to embrace of the inexplicable signaled the deep shift in Arthur’s poetic practice."
Strategies for Revising Poems
"These days, I think the distinction between composition and revision is a false one. All revision is composition."
Six Provocations
"It’s no good to walk from A to B on the solid earth, one must walk the wire."
Stop Making Sense: A Sensible Proposal
"Language and syntax both impede and make possible an exploration of how we actually engage the world."