May 23, 2016 - Saint Julian Press proudly presents a new collection of poems by
Jeffrey Davis, which is now available through fine book distributors and retailers.
BOOK LAUNCH SITE
Press Release
~ COAT THIEF ~
By Jeffrey Davis
Book Catalog
Houston: Press Release - For immediate release April 11, 2016. Saint Julian Press proudly presents
a new collection of poems by Jeffrey Davis, which will be available on May 23,
2016 through fine book distributors and retailers.
Praise for Coat Thief
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"Like
walking meditations, the poetic feet of Jeffrey Davis's Coat Thief invoke mindfulness through grounded, regular movement.
Profoundly 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 objects. These are
poems filled with wonder, poems that demonstrate over and over that we need not
rely on esoteric experience for transcendence––because it is, we
learn from Coat Thief, the ordinary
that is most extraordinary. Yes! 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, I Ate The
Cosmos for Breakfast |
"The quiet moments of a
life can be the most revealing and yet the ones we pay attention to least.
Jeffrey Davis slows down the mind-camera in Coat
Thief to linger in those moments with a focus always rich with compassion,
empathy, and physical touch. I love his intention. I love 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 progress. But 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 a blue stone that is just beginning to hear you; a
mother and the child kicking inside her with a god’s foot.”
~
Brian Clements, author of Disappointed Psalms and A Book of Common
Rituals
JEFFREY DAVIS
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JEFFREY DAVIS
AUTHOR'S PHOTO CREDIT: FRANCO VOGT
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May 23rd 7pm ET
Online Video Coat Thief Launch Party
Reading with Jeffrey in ASPEN May 31, 2016 at 5:30pm ET Explore Booksellers 221 East Main Street Aspen, CO More Information Here Wordspace Talk & Reading with Jeffrey Davis & Renee Rossi in DALLAS June 2, 2016 at 7:30pm ET The Wild Detectives 314 West 8th St Dallas, TX 75208 More Information Here |
Book Launch Party in WOODSTOCK!
June 4, 2016 at 6:30pm ET Golden Notebook 29 Tinker St. Woodstock, NY 12498 More Information Here Woodstock Poetry Society June 11, 2016 at 2pm ET Golden Notebook 29 Tinker St. Woodstock, NY 12498 More Information Here Reading with Jeffrey in NEW PALTZ July 10, 2016 at 4:30pm ET Inquiring Minds New Paltz, NY More information coming soon |
Available
through ~ Ingram Content Group ~ Amazon ~ Barnes & Noble ~ Fine Book
Distributors & Retailers
Saint
Julian Press, Inc. * Houston, TX 77008 * Ron
Starbuck ~ Publisher-CEO
Phone:
281-734-8721 * Email: ronstarbuck@saintjulianpress.com * Web: www.saintjulianpress.com
Press Release PDF files - Available to Download
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