Poetry. "These poems are so bright they hurt"--Susan Mitchell. In the book of Genesis, Noah sends forth a raven and a dove to test the status of the flood. The return of the dove is widely celebrated, but the fate of the raven--the bird who speaks--is left ambiguous. In Christina Davis' luminous first collection of poems, her questions are those raised by the journey of the raven and what he represents: language and communication, risk, exile, and mortality.
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