Touched By The Invisible Hand: Poems (Pitt Poetry Series) - Softcover

Davis, John Paul

 
9780822967224: Touched By The Invisible Hand: Poems (Pitt Poetry Series)

Synopsis

New poetry by John Paul Davis.

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About the Author

John Paul Davis is the author of Crown Prince of Rabbits, and his poems have appeared in RATTLE, Bennington Review, Maine Review, MUZZLE, The Journal, and many others. His writing is informed by the many odd jobs he has held, including bike messenger, line cook, warehouse manager, roller-rink deejay, college professor, stablehand, paperboy, soundman, and bookseller, among others. He now works as a web developer and lives in New York City.

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EXCERPT FROM “ZUGZWANG” 


We have to build wealth 

you replied & I have nothing against money 

except what worries me 

about the world we live in, how every dollar 

is traceable to slavery, 

the disintegrating glaciers, 

murders by police, 

the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, 

mass extinctions 

 

& I imagine us scrambling 

up a burning rope 

trying to keep above the fire. 

We can't let go 

& we can't climb forever 

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