Authentic Embellishments - Davis, Joshua
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Davis artfully traverses paths of personal trauma, chronic illness, and identity, exploring how language and lyricism become acts of survival. The work is a tapestry of fragments-portraits of family, love, loss, and resilience-woven together with precision and heart. Throughout, literary figures such as Lucille Clifton and Ruth Stone appear as luminous guides, offering solace and strength in the darkest moments. What begins as an exploration of survival gradually transforms into a bid for connection, belonging, and creative reclamation. Poetry emerges not as a solution to suffering, but as a companion and witness to it.…mehr

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Davis artfully traverses paths of personal trauma, chronic illness, and identity, exploring how language and lyricism become acts of survival. The work is a tapestry of fragments-portraits of family, love, loss, and resilience-woven together with precision and heart. Throughout, literary figures such as Lucille Clifton and Ruth Stone appear as luminous guides, offering solace and strength in the darkest moments. What begins as an exploration of survival gradually transforms into a bid for connection, belonging, and creative reclamation. Poetry emerges not as a solution to suffering, but as a companion and witness to it.
Autorenporträt
Joshua Davis is the author of Reversal Spells in Blue and Black (Seven Kitchens Press) and, with Allison Blevins, the co-author of Chorus for the Kill (Seven Kitchens Press) and fiery poppies bruising their own throats (Glass Lyre Press). He holds an MFA from Stonecoast at the University of Southern Maine, an MFA from the University of Mississippi, and an M.A. from Pittsburg State University. A former John and Renee Grisham fellow, he offers online workshops and private mentoring at The Poetry Barn. Recent work has appeared in ONE ART: a journal of poetry, The Hunger, and TAB. He teaches high school near Tampa, Florida.