Fearless Now & Nameless by Jon Davis: A Poetry Book Launch

Jon Davis directs his keen eye toward the ironies on which this life so often depends—the failures of language, the violence of nature, the indifference of death. “Is that what spirit is?” the poet wonders, considering the nature of birds, the thrasher, the finch “humping in the eaves. Gathering straw and string. / Laying the griefstruck delicate eggs.” As we read, we find our own eyes grow sharper, better able to take it all in.

Jon Davis is the author of, most recently, Above the Bejeweled City (2021) and Fearless Now and Nameless (forthcoming in March, 2025), both from Grid Books. He performs with Clap the Houses Dark (clapthehousesdark.com), a poetry + rock band whose first album was released in September. He has received a Lannan Literary Award, the Lavan Prize, and two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships. Poems are just out or forthcoming in Tampa Review, Plume, Missouri Review, Bennington Review, Raleigh Review, and The Wallace Stevens Journal. jondavispoet.com.

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