Dismal
Rock
*Dorset Prize*
Tupelo Press 2007
“This
beautiful book records the sacraments of labor and the dark
equivocations of history in a single swath of tobacco land
in south central Kentucky. With infinite patience and luminous
particularity, Davis McCombs unearths the traces of those-who-have-gone-before-us
through the material world. His poems have the weight of psalms.”
—Linda Gregerson, judge
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Ultima
Thule
*Yale Series of Younger Poets*
*Finalist, National Book Critics Circle Award*
Yale U. Press 2000
“Its
authenticity is deep in its langauge,
not dependent on flash or effect: a grave, attentive holding
of the light.” —W.S. Merwin, judge
“The
finest Yale Poets selection in years.” —Publishers
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about Davis McCombs
McCombs,
the Director of the Creative Writing Program, attended Harvard
University, the University of Virginia (as a Henry Hoyns Fellow),
and Stanford University (as a Wallace Stegner Fellow). He
is also the recipient of fellowships from the Ruth Lilly Poetry
Foundation, the Kentucky Arts Council, and the National Endowment
for the Arts.
McCombs’
work appears in The Best American Poetry 1996, The
Missouri Review, Poetry, The Kenyon Review, Virginia Quarterly
Review, and many other magazines and journals. He was
awarded the 2005 Larry Levis Editor’s Prize by The
Missouri Review for a sixteen-part sequence of poems
called “Tobacco Mosaic,” the 2005 Vachel Lindsay
Poetry Award from Willow Springs for his poem “Rossetti
in 1869” and Wind magazine’s 2005 Joy
Bale Boone award for a poem called “Noodling.”
McCombs
grew up in Hart County, Kentucky. From 1991-2001, he worked
as a Park Ranger at Mammoth Cave National Park.
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