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Self Portraits Coram Deo: The Poetry of Brad Davis (A Conference Breakout Preview)
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Self Portraits Coram Deo: The Poetry of Brad Davis (A Conference Breakout Preview)

by Ethan on Apr 12, 2012 • 1 Comment

Mockingbird’s 5th annual New York City Conference is a week away and we are honored to present, during Session C of Friday’s breakout sessions, the poet Brad Davis, who will be reading from his new collection of poems, Self Portrait w/ Disposable Camera (as well as his inspired Opening King David collection, which we’ve highlighted on here before). An accomplished poet, Davis’ poems in this new collection have been published in such journals as the Paris Review, Image, Poetry, and the Michigan Quarterly Review. Davis has an indelible fixation on the confessional moments of Coram Deo, the presence of God…

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Praise Him – Brad Davis

by David Zahl on Jun 16, 2011 • 4 Comments

Those who make idols will be like them.
Psalm 135:18

PRAISE HIM

As for idols, they are impotent. Not
one can see or speak or feel

a neighbor’s ache – her dog dead
and child missing below the levee. I read

the headlines and feel more
than all the idols that ever were.

Even the idol that is our idea
of God is impotent – B is not A -

yet God does what he pleases,
the earth what is true to its nature.

We build cities and pay scant attention
to either, then cry foul when the dam breaks.

Idols cannot save, nor theologies.
Only God, and that is no great comfort.

 

*From Opening King David (Wipf & Stock, 2011; Antrim House, 2005-08). First published in The Other Journal.

Opening King David
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Opening King David

by David Zahl on May 26, 2011 • 3 Comments

All you culture-vultures out there, one of our favorite contemporary poets, Brad Davis, has a new collection out this month. Davis is that rare artist who can deal with religious themes without concealing his humanity or feeling the need to protect his Lord. If you’ve enjoyed the Scott Cairns poems we’ve posted, you’ll love Brad’s. Indeed, the integration on display here is something to behold; no crevice of human feeling or experience goes unexplored – and while the language is beautiful, it’s also unassuming and funny (and, thankfully, never pious), which is hard to do, especially when you’re addressing themes…

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