Leopold’s Maneuvers
Winner of the 2003 Prairie Schooner
Book Prize in Poetry
“Leopold’s Maneuvers takes
the body—gorgeous, suffering, medicalized, mythologized, abused,
and loved—as its central topic. Both harsh and beautiful, these
poems are acts of spiritual survival.”
—poetry
judges Robin Becker
and
Peggy Shumaker
“Davis’s work transcends all
adjectives, locating itself in the complexity and mystery of human
existence. These poems bypass poetic trends and leap directly into
the hard facts of birth, sex, and death.”
—Jeffrey
Skinner
“The poems in Cortney Davis’s
astonishing new book grip us with the adroit, knowing hands of the
wise woman. Davis unerringly and courageously addresses our suffering,
and offers us the joyous possibility of healing.”
—Rafael
Campo


