From Publishers WeeklyBest known on the Web as a reviewer for Constant Critic and a major blogger (millionpoems.blogspot.com), Davis studied with Kenneth Koch, and has brilliantly reinvented his master's voice: "Come in the ambulance with me/ And let me lift your skirt, you/ Dazzling unknown form!"Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Million Poems Journal

Literature & Fiction

Davis, Jordan

Poetry

Faux Pr

Sentinel Knights: Dawn

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Science Fiction

Independently published

Poetry. The first collection in fifteen years from a poet whose first book Stephanie Burt called "very personal, very appealing," SHELL GAME by Jordan Davis presents a series of puzzles of feeling and mazes of history where the person speaking disappears into the world, and vice versa, without warning. Starting against the backdrop of New York in 2001 and working back to the words that came into the English language during World War II, Jordan Davis's second book teleports to Turkey in the middle of the century in a series of poems reimagining the work of Orhan Veli Kanik as a New York School poet, then returns to reflect on the precarious present in which everything is at incredible risk, and trying to laugh about it. In addition to "My Orhan Veli," SHELL GAME includes the sparkling long poems, "When I Was the Subject," "A Million Random Digits" and "The Throat," critical digressions on copyright, several brutal short poems, and at opposite ends of the book, two quantum-entangled baffling sequences about... quantum entanglement and bafflement, what else?

Shell Game

Edge Books

It has become increasingly clear that Numbers is the litmus test for new ideas relating to the formation of the Pentateuch. At the same time the profusion of ideas has only resulted in a corresponding lack of agreement between scholars. In the present study, Jordan Davis grants significant attention to the geographical references found at the end of the book of Numbers, combining archaeological, historical and literary critical insights, in the attempt to arrive at more "verifiable" results. With a detailed view at the Transjordan conquest traditions (Num 21:21-35; 32; Deut 2:24-3:20*) and the twin legal narratives relating to Zelophehad's daughters (Num 27; 36), the author argues for the historical catalysts underlying these traditions and then points to the ideological motivation behind their redactional expansion.

The End of the Book of Numbers: On Pentateuchal Models and Compositional Issues (Archaeology and Bible, 6)

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

Mohr Siebrek Ek

Men with Adult ADHD Book: Overcoming Distraction, Boosting Efficiency, and Breaking the Cycle of Self-Doubt

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Mental Health

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