Praise for Improbable Creatures
“The improbable creatures in Jon Davis’s magical new collection include birds, conquerors, poets, parents, philosophers, coyotes, musicians, lovers, communists, and even ‘the other Jon Davis.’ With directness, humility, candor, and, above all, a generous talent, this Jon Davis offers shimmering solutions for the ongoing dilemma of being human. ”
Praise for Jon Davis
“Off-the-charts terrific”
“Davis’s poems so deeply probe the human condition that we find ourselves lost in new, perplexing, and unidentifiable territories, where our minds and our preconceived ideas about loss and remembrance, pain and epiphany are completely affected and changed.”
About the Author
Jon Davis is the author of six chapbooks and four books of poetry, including Preliminary Report (Copper Canyon, 2010) and Scrimmage of Appetite (University of Akron, 1995). He also co-translated Dayplaces (Tebot Bach, 2015) from the Arabic with author Naseer Hassan. He has received numerous awards for his poetry, including a Lannan Literary Award, two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, and the Lavan Younger Poets Award from the Academy of American Poets. He is Director of the Low Residency MFA at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe.
