From THE OCHRE WORLD - #24

Note: The Ochre World is a 45 page poem, formed at the junction of a dream, a news event, and some photographs of the Lascaux cave paintings. Some of the poem\u27s sections can stand alone, others cannot, but all are enriched by a scheme of recurring imagery and an evolving argument. Although unnumbered in the full manuscript, I have given these sections—which occur late in the poem—numbers, so the reader can feel the duration, at least, of the absent sections. -- J.D. [from original publication, 1994.

From THE OCHRE WORLD - #25

Note: The Ochre World is a 45 page poem, formed at the junction of a dream, a news event, and some photographs of the Lascaux cave paintings. Some of the poem\u27s sections can stand alone, others cannot, but all are enriched by a scheme of recurring imagery and an evolving argument. Although unnumbered in the full manuscript, I have given these sections—which occur late in the poem—numbers, so the reader can feel the duration, at least, of the absent sections. -- J.D. [from original publication, 1994.

The World; The Arena of Civilization

Jon Davis recently completed an MFA at the University of Montana, where he won the Academy of American Poets Award and edited Cutbank. His chapbook West of New England received the Merriam Award (1983), and he has published lately in Poetry, Georgia Review, Tendril, and elsewhere

“To Mr. Jefferson on the Occasion of My ‘Madness,’” “The Campaign Manager Talks Shop”

Jon Davis is the author of Dangerous Amusements (OR Press). A chapbook of his prose poems, The Hawk. The Road. The Sunlight After Clouds, is forthcoming from Owl Creek Press. New work has appeared or will be appearing in The Harvard Review, Gulf Coast, and The Prose Poem. He lives in Glorieta, New Mexico, and teaches at the Institute of American Indian Arts