Beast Language
5 Islands Press, $24.95 pb, 79 pp, 9780734048028
Poetry
Toby Davidson, 'Beast Language'
by Peter Kenneally •
‘Poetry is a long apprenticeship,’ says Toby Davidson at the start of his first collection. He is certainly a poet who has mastered far more than the basics. Beast Language is only seventy-seven pages long, but feels far more substantial. Davidson has travelled a long way: from west coast to east, from novice to scholar, and the book has much of this movement in it.
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