“Many poets feel that they know the natural world, Todd Davis has absorbed this world fully into his heart and mind. He is a fine, rare poet.”
– Jim Harrison, author of Legends of the Fall
Episode Show Notes
Books by Todd Davis
Resources & People Mentioned
- The Universal Christ by Richard Rohr
- Center for Action and Contemplation
- The Least of These by Todd Davis
- “Face of Jesus” from The Least of These by Todd Davis
- Joseph Campbell
- Iron John by Robert Bly
- Ecclesiastes
- William Stafford
- Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
- Grendel by John Gardner
- Raymond Carver
- “Midrash” by Todd Davis
- St. Francis of Assisi by Nikos Kazantzakis
- Last Temptation of Christ by Nikos Kazantzakis
- ‘Holy Shit’ from Imperfect Thirst by Galway Kennell
- Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer
- Citizen Potawatomi Nation
- Iroquois
- ‘Native Species’ and “Gnosis” from Native Species by Todd Davis
Drink Recommended
- Green Tea with wildflower honey and lemon juice
Questions
- Where I am finding you today, what is the context of your setting?
- Christian, Buddhist, Transcendentalist traditions are woven into your poetry…how do these traditions speak most deeply to your life?
- What impact did Kurt Vonnegut have on your life?
- I have my own assumptions, but why do you begin Native Species with a quote from William Stafford?
- Reading of ‘Native Species’
- Can you speak to the where your work speaks to the memory and scars of the past?
- Reading of ‘Gnosis’
- What drink would pair with this conversation?
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