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Todd Davis writes poems that are spare yet eloquent, poems with an appealing simplicity that belies their insight and consequence. They are rooted in the firmament of nature's frequently bruised bounty, yet grounded by our all-too-human experiences on this planet, living on a land that we so often treat with contempt or blunder through blindly. With the eye of a naturalist and the heart- wisdom of a sage, Davis reveals scenes of our lives that we might have otherwise missed. His poems are like the best kind of snapshot; they show us the details that deserve more attention, from a...

If baseball is the sport of nostalgic prose, basketball s movement, myths, and culture are truly at home in verse. In this extraordinary collection of essays, poets meditate on what basketball means to them: how it has changed their perspective on the craft of poetry; how it informs their sense of language, the body, and human connectedness; how their love of the sport made a difference in the creation of their poems and in the lives they live beyond the margins. Walt Whitman saw the origins of poetry as communal, oral myth making. The same could be said of basketball, which is the beating...

Divided into four descriptive sections---Theory and the Ethics of Literary Text, - -Confronting the Difficult: The Ethics of Race and Power, - -Making Darkness Visible: The Ethical Implications of Narrative as Witness, - and -Ways of Seeing: The Diversity of Applied Ethical Criticism---this unprecedented collection of essays traces the interpretive, pedagogic, and theoretical concerns inherent in the study of literature, ethics, and modes of criticism. Wayne C. Booth's -Why Ethical Criticism Can Never Be Simple, - J. Hillis Miller's -How to Be 'in Tune with the Right' in The Golden Bowl, -...

Divided into four descriptive sections---Theory and the Ethics of Literary Text, - -Confronting the Difficult: The Ethics of Race and Power, - -Making Darkness Visible: The Ethical Implications of Narrative as Witness, - and -Ways of Seeing: The Diversity of Applied Ethical Criticism---this unprecedented collection of essays traces the interpretive, pedagogic, and theoretical concerns inherent in the study of literature, ethics, and modes of criticism. Wayne C. Booth's -Why Ethical Criticism Can Never Be Simple, - J. Hillis Miller's -How to Be 'in Tune with the Right' in The Golden Bowl, -...