In Coffin Honey, his seventh book of poems, celebrated poet Todd
Davis explores the many forms of violence we do to each other and
to the other living beings with whom we share the planet. Here
racism, climate collapse, and pandemic, as well as the very real
threat of extinction-both personal and across ecosystems-are
dramatized in intimate portraits of Rust-Belt Appalachia: a young
boy who has been sexually assaulted struggles with dreams of
revenge and the possible solace that nature might provide; a girl
whose boyfriend has enlisted in the military faces pregnancy alone;
and a bear named Ursus navigates the fecundity of the forest after
his own mother's death, literally crashing into the encroaching
human world. Each poem in Coffin Honey seeks to illuminate beauty
and suffering, the harrowing precipice we find ourselves walking
nearer to in the twenty-first century. As with his past
prize-winning volumes, Davis, whose work Orion Magazine likens to
that of Wendell Berry and Mary Oliver, names the world with love
and care, demonstrating what one reviewer describes as his
knowledge of "Latin names, common names, habitats, and habits . . .
steeped in the exactness of the earth and the science that unfolds
in wildness."
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