About Davis McCombs

Davis McCombs is the Director of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Arkansas. His first book, Ultima Thule, was chosen by W. S. Merwin as the winner of the 1999 Yale Series of Younger Poets. Published in April 2000, it was selected as one of five finalists for the National Book Critics Circle Award.

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Jamaica, 1996
The storm’s first bullets pit the sand
this side of the wrinkling wave-line; the island,

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