City Reservoir Author:Jeff Davis This book marks Jeff Davis's debut full-length book of poems. City Reservoir offers a series of Davis's poetic meditations upon being-in-the city. The first section captures mythic rhythms of dream, linguistic associations, and overhead conversations--rhythms that mirror an individual mind and a city's beats meshing with and resisti... more »ng one another. Risking to blend the narrative, lyrical, meditative, and surreal into single poems, Davis hears the multiple voices that comprise a full day in the city. The second section centers upon ways of flying in, loving, and navigating the city. As Frederick Turner notes in his introduction to the book, these series of interrelated meditations can be read as a single poem, a single prayer to living in the city.« less