Grace

Clearly this is a tricky, delicate business. Davidson, who has experienced and adapted to severe hearing loss, knows quite a lot about inhabiting the gaps between speech and understanding, or, as he puts it,"...the hiatus before the image." Like Creeley, he has heard "words full of holes." It is the job of the poet to attend to such spaces and Davidson does this masterfully. Grace speaks to this moment when, it seems, we are all losing the ability to hear one another. It may be my personal favorite among Michael Davidson's numerous books.