* first book in 12 years * teaches at the Institute of American Indian Arts * supported by many poets and writers, including Arthur Sze, William Kittredge, Robert Hass, Brenda Hillman, David Foster Wallace * David Foster Wallace fell so in love with Davis’s work that he took out ads, at Wallace’s own expense, to promote Davis’s last book * Davis is a master of the prose poem * An interesting side-note: Davis has a keen interest in literary hoaxes, and is somehow connected to the controversial literary persona, Chuck Calabreze, who has been accused of not playing nice in the poetry world. (For example, in response to the NEA’s program of performing Shakespeare on military bases, Calabrese wrote: I think it’d be cute to see sixth graders reciting Charles Bukowski poems. That’s it. A nation of sixth graders reciting Bukowski! Now that’s building good citizenship! )