From THE OCHRE WORLD - #37

Jon Davis

Jon Davis has completed a new collection of poems and prose poems entitled The Ochre World. Other poems from the manuscript have appeared in Five Fingers Review, Gulf Coast, Hambone, Harvard Review, Ontario Review, and the Fine Arts Work Center Anthology. ["Contributor Note" from original publication, 1994.]

Abstract

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's 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.]

Recommended Citation

Davis, Jon (1994) "From THE OCHRE WORLD - #37," The Prose Poem: An International Journal: Vol. 3, Article 18.
Available at: http://digitalcommons.providence.edu/prosepoem/vol3/iss1/18