Coat Thief

Praise For Coat Thief Like Walking Meditations, The Poetic Feet Of Jeffrey Davis's Coat Thief Invoke Mindfulness Through Grounded, Regular MovementProfoundly Attuned To The Beauty Of Daily Existence, These Poems Upend And Expand Conventional Perceptions Of Magnitude As They Give Prominence To Sneaker Prints, Earthworms, Egg Cartons, And Other Often Unnoticed ObjectsThese Are Poems Filled With Wonder, Poems That Demonstrate Over And Over That We Need Not Rely On Esoteric Experience For Transcendencebecause It Is, We Learn From Coat Thief, The Ordinary That Is Most ExtraordinaryYes! It Is Possible For Poetic Feet To Connect Our Soles And Souls More Intimately To The Earth, And With Davis, The Closer We Are To The Earth, The Closer We Are To The Divine      ~Melissa Studdard, IAte The Cosmos For Breakfast The Quiet Moments Of ALife Can Be The Most Revealing And Yet The Ones We Pay Attention To LeastJeffrey Davis Slows Down The Mind Camera In Coat Thief To Linger In Those Moments With AFocus Always Rich With Compassion, Empathy, And Physical TouchILove His IntentionILove His Sound.       ~Kazim Ali, Sky Ward We Are Accustomed To Poems That Seek Political Change By Deploying Fierce Urgency And By Speeding Up Time To Get Us Moving Toward ProgressBut If The Poems In Jeffrey Davis's Coat Thief Are Good Evidence, Then The Most Effective, And Affective, Poems Of Change May Be Those Poems That Slow Time Down And Bless Us With Moments In Which We Are Able To Perceive Emotional Complexes In Instants Of Time, Moments That Leave Us Stupendously Awake In The Dark: An Earthworm Churning Through The Detritus Of Civilizations, Wasting Your Morning Speaking To ABlue Stone That Is Just Beginning To Hear You, AMother And The Child Kicking Inside Her With AGod's Foot.       ~Brian Clements, Author Of Disappointed Psalms And ABook Of Common Rituals
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