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William Virgil Davis

{{Short description|American poet (born 1940)}}

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William Virgil Davis (born 1940) is an American poet.

He has published poems in Poetry, The Nation, The Hudson Review, The Georgia Review, The Hopkins Review, The Gettysburg Review, The New Criterion, The Sewanee Review, The Atlantic Monthly, Denver Quarterly, and Shenandoah, among others. He has also published several books of literary criticism, as well as critical essays in numerous periodicals. He is Professor of English and Writer-in-Residence at Baylor University.{{Cite news|url=https://www.baylor.edu/mediacommunications/news.php?action=story&story=83344|title=Baylor Writer-in-Residence Will Give Poetry Reading for the Public on Nov. 11|date=2010-11-03|work=Media Communications {{!}} Baylor University|access-date=2017-08-30}}

Biography

William Virgil Davis was born in the United States of America in 1940, in Ohio. He studied at Ohio University. He has lived and taught in Austria, Denmark and Wales for extended periods of time.

Awards

  • 1979 Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize
  • 1984 Calliope Press Chapbook Prize
  • 2009 New Criterion Poetry Prize{{Cite web|url=http://www.pw.org/content/william_virgil_davis|title=William Virgil Davis|date=August 29, 2015|website=Poets & Writers|language=en|access-date=2017-08-30}}
  • 2010 Helen C. Smith Memorial Award for Poetry

Bibliography

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= Poetry =

;Collections

  • Dismantlements of Silence : Poems Selected and New (2015)
  • The Dark Hours, which won the Calliope Press Chapbook Prize
  • Winter Light
  • {{cite book |title=One Way to Reconstruct The Scene |publisher=Yale University Press |date=1980 |isbn=978-0-300-02503-3 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/onewaytoreconstr00davi }}
  • Landscape and Journey
  • The Bones Poems

;List of poems

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|{{cite journal |author=Davis, William Virgil |date=February 2023 |title=The gardens of the Villa D'Este |journal=Commonweal |volume=150 |issue=2 |pages=59 |url=https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/poem-gardens-villa-d%E2%80%99este |url-access=limited }}

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  • BITTERROOT: INTERNATIONAL POETRY QUARTERLY TENTH ANNIVERSARY, Menke Katz (editor-in-chief), VOLUME X NUMBER 4 ISSUE 40, SUMMER 1972
  • The Ohio Poem, Hudson Review, Spring 1982, Vol. 35 Issue 1, p69-70, 2p{{Cite news|url=http://hudsonreview.com/1982/04/the-ohio-poem-at-the-ruins/|title=The Ohio Poem; At the Ruins|date=1982-04-15|work=The Hudson Review|access-date=2017-08-30|language=en-US}}
  • Artful Dodge, Issue 26/27 (1994){{Cite web |url=http://www.wooster.edu/ArtfulDodge/gallery/gallery.htm |title=Artful Dodge - Back Issues: Gallery |access-date=2009-03-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090307100048/http://www.wooster.edu/artfuldodge/gallery/gallery.htm |archive-date=2009-03-07 |url-status=dead }}
  • THE BRIDGE: A JOURNAL OF FICTION & POETRY VOLUME, Jack Zucker (editor), 6 NUMBER 2 FALL / WINTER 1997
  • FOUR QUARTERS, John J. Keenan(editor), VOLUME 8, NUMBER 2, SECOND SERIES FALL, 1994
  • [http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/A-visit-to-Manafon-3350 A visit to Manafon, The New Criterion, April 1997]
  • [http://www.cortlandreview.com/issuefour/davis4.htm Deserter; A Corpse in Gloves; Tracks, The Courtland Review, Issue Four, August 1998]
  • [http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/artemis-davis-2073 Courtyard looking toward Artemis from the west cloister, The New Criterion, December 2001]
  • SPECIAL ISSUE: POETRY TOUR GUIDE U.S. 62, Pudding 44, Summer 2002, 54 pages{{Cite web |url=http://www.puddinghouse.com/pmagazine.htm |title=Pudding House's Pudding Magazine |access-date=2009-03-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090423113618/http://www.puddinghouse.com/pmagazine.htm |archive-date=2009-04-23 |url-status=dead }}
  • The Staying, Leaves, and The Singing,, The Gettsburg Review, Autumn Spring 2002{{cite web|url=http://www3.gettysburg.edu/academics/gettysburg_review/Back_Issues/151.htm|title=Gettysburg Review|website=3.gettysburg.edu|accessdate=30 August 2017}}
  • The Other, AGNI 59, 2004{{Cite web|url=http://www.bu.edu/agni/toc/59/index.html|title=AGNI Online: AGNI 59 Table of Contents|website=Bu.edu|access-date=2017-08-30}}
  • A Vision in Late Afternoon, The Gettsburg Review, Autumn 2005{{cite web|url=http://public.gettysburg.edu/academics/gettysburg_review/Back_Issues/183.htm|title=Gettysburg Review|website=Public.gettysburg.edu|accessdate=30 August 2017}}
  • [http://weberjournal.weber.edu/archive/archive%20D%20Vol.%2021.2-24.1/Vol.%2022.3/Davis%20Poe.htm Morning; Seasons; Sentinel, Webber The Contemporary West, Spring/Summer 2006, Volume 22.3]
  • [http://weberjournal.weber.edu/archive/archive%20D%20Vol.%2021.2-24.1/Vol.%2025.1/William%20Virgil%20Davis%20Poe.htm Photographs; Weather Report; The Writer, Webber The Contemporary West, Fall 2008, Volume 25.1]

===Criticism===

  • {{cite book | title=Critical Essays on Robert Bly | publisher=Twayne Publishers | date=January 1, 1992 | isbn=978-0-87249-591-3 | author=William Virgil Davis | url-access=registration | url=https://archive.org/details/understandingrob00davi }}
  • {{cite book| title=Miraculous Simplicity |author=William Virgil Davis| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6_ouT3nQDa8C&q=William+Virgil+Davis| publisher=University of Arkansas Press |year=1993| isbn=978-1-55728-265-1 }}
  • {{cite book| title=R.S. Thomas |author=William Virgil Davis|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4EccO3iAB-8C&q=William+Virgil+Davis| publisher=Baylor University Press|year=2007| isbn=978-1-932792-49-2 }}
  • George Whitefield's Journals, 1737–1741, Scholar's Facsimiles & Reprints,1969. Editor
  • Understanding Robert Bly, University of South Carolina Press, 1988.
  • Robert Bly: The Poet and His Critics, Camden House Publishers, 1994.

Anthologies

  • {{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LOX2CV7-Gv0C&dq=William+Virgil+Davis&pg=PA99| title=I Feel a Little Jumpy Around You |editor=Naomi Shihab Nye |editor2=Paul B. Janeczko |editor2-link=Paul B. Janeczko | publisher=Simon and Schuster| year=1999 |isbn=978-0-689-81341-2 }}
  • {{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0PimB2Xm-48C&dq=William+Virgil+Davis&pg=RA3-PA198| title=Inheritance of light |editor=Ray González| publisher=University of North Texas Press| year= 1996 |isbn=978-1-57441-013-6}}
  • {{cite book| url=http://www.bosonbooks.com/boson/poetry/trashpoem/trashsample.html| title=WHITE TRASH: An Anthology of Contemporary Southern Poets|editor=Nancy C. McAlister |editor2=Robert Waters Grey| year= 1976 }}

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