Addresses Quote by August Kleinzahler

“There is a particular quality of quietude and stillness that suffuses these painterly poems of Carol Ann Davis, so involved with loss, motherhood and the shifting tonalities of light that transform the domestic and ordinary into the strange and extraordinary that, combined with tenderness of address, approach the worshipful and make a number of these poems so moving and distinctive.”

August Kleinzahler

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Addresses Approach Carols Distinctive Extraordinary Involved Light Loss Motherhood Moving Numbers Ordinary Particular Poetry Quality Shifting Stillness Strange Tenderness

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