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"""One of [Alison's] most apt tools in these poems is the question mark-her mastery of it makes it as though you can actually feel one in your palm. She helps you behold the question mark's smooth edge, its fine point, its lone period, both isolated and in community. And then, she holds it to your eye, and uses it as a lens through which to see our world."" -Phil Kaye Alison Davis' poems in Wild Canvas take us on a trip back to childhood memories, inner conflicts in facing family traumas, struggles as a teacher, and being a woman today. Behind these curtained in the subtle darkness is her deep understanding as a writer with her metaphor of the map: ""that's the kind of paths we chart with words, all unfolding and changing colors and rearranging what is face to face and back to back until . . . write it like that paper is your friend ... starting and finishing are closer than they seem."" This advice I will pack away for those moments when nothing seems to come or when words tumble out formless and dull. Her words in one poem after the other pour forth images that keep resonating through the hours, bringing comfort and challenging new views. Wild Canvas deserves to be read and savored. -Betty Staley"

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Alison Davis is a lifelong student who was born in Detroit, Michigan, lives in California, and explores the world through teaching and learning. Her literary work engages the qualities of devotion and awe, which are equally available in both joy and in grief, in the everyday and in the extraordinary. As a scholar, Alison's research focuses on participatory pedagogy, spiritual inquiry, and healing practices. As a human being who believes in interconnection and deep relationality, Alison's social justice work, especially in food justice, embodies the transformative paradigm as a path of mutual liberation. She likes lists, litanies, and alliteration. She loves making trash art with her kids, running up mountains (both real and imagined), and praying to the God of her understanding.

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