William Davis

Nov 27, 2024 | commonwealmagazine.org | William Davis |Charles McNamara |Stephen Pope |Regina Munch

NativityIf you squint slightly you will be able to see,deep in the donkey’s slitted eye, the whole scenereflected. Used to being pushed off to the side,he stands stolid and docile beside an overturnedbucket and a bale of hay hurriedly strewn aboutwithout much thought, or afterthought. The lightis dim except for some unaccountable glimmerthat seems to come from above, circling the smallcentral scene.

Feb 1, 2023 | commonwealmagazine.org | William Davis |Matt McManus |Massimo Faggioli |Daniel M Walden

William Virgil Davis’s most recent book of poetry is Dismantlements of Silence: Poems Selected and New (2015). He has published five other books of poetry: The Bones Poems; Landscape and Journey, which won the New Criterion Poetry Prize and the Helen C. Smith Memorial Award for Poetry; Winter Light; The Dark Hours, which won the Calliope Press Chapbook Prize; One Way to Reconstruct the Scene, which won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize.