Bøger af Doris Davenport

Another lively, eclectic 150 page collection of poems celebrating the author's 65th birthday. Includes haiku and longer performance pieces; provocative, humorous, visionary. In three sections, most originally composed on a smartphone, between 2011 & Dec. 2013. (This is the author's 9th book of poetry.)

An eclectic collection of new poetry including an innovative "text-in-body" section. Topics range from the highly controversial and political (as well as disturbingly, intimately personal) to the softly humorous and quietly meditative. To be performed and / or not. Illustrations & b/w photographs (by author).

Increasingly the struggle against systemic depravity (misogynoir, racism, misogyny, ageism, classism, impoverishment; international pathologies, etc.) wears us out. The daily onslaughts against basic civil and human rights are especially wearying. And yet we - often just barely but sometimes majestically, heroically - continue. Survive. Transcend. Accordingly, these poems affirm, re-define and celebrate life with honest analysis, humor and many inspirational nature poems. Topics cover daily survival and silliness, exercise and health, and (practical) spirituality. This book includes photographs, mostly mountain "cloudscapes" because the author is also an avid photographer.

In her enchanting poem sequence, Doris Davenport introduces readers to Soque Street and its "Affrilachian" residents. These African Americans inhabiting an Appalachian community in northeast Georgia live in a world where magic threads daily life and the living and dead commingle.