In an age when many find themselves disconnected from the natural world, celebrated poet Todd Davis, a resident of Bellwood, offers the possibilities of reconnection, of listening to the earth’s labored breathing, to the thoughts of other-than-human animals and the languages trees speak. In thirty new poems, and with ample selections from his previous seven books, Davis’s roots run deep in Rust-Belt Appalachia, attending to the harmed but healing landscape, the people whose lives are too often neglected, and the looming threat of climate collapse and extinction.
Todd Davis is the author of eight books of poetry and teaches environmental studies and creative writing at Pennsylvania State University’s Altoona College. He’ll bring copies of his books; please bring cash or a checkbook if you’re interested in purchasing.