Chad Davidson is an associate professor of English at the University of West Georgia (Carrollton). He has published two volumes of poetry with SIU Press—Consolation Miracle and The Last Predicta. In addition, he has co-authored two textbooks (with Gregory Fraser) on writing: Writing Poetry: Creative and Critical Approaches (Palgrave, 2009) and Analyze Anything: A Guide to Critical Reading and Writing (Continuum, 2012). His poems, reviews, translations, and essays have appeared in a number of journals, including AGNI, Boston Review, Chicago Review, Paris Review, Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, Virginia Quarterly Review, and The Writer’s Chronicle.

Other poems by Chad Davidson in Verse Daily:
April 29, 2005:  "I Took by the Throat the Circumcised Dog" ""This is why we read: this same tragedy..."
November 25, 2003:  "Visitations From Architeuthis" "I feel their pulse in the deep..."
July 17, 2003:  "Two Crows" "Three crows / huddling between telephone wires..."

Books by Chad Davidson:

Other poems on the web by Chad Davidson:
"Soft Costs"
Six poems
"Encryption"
Three poems
Two poems
Two poems
"The Match"

About From the Fire Hills:

"Italy is the origin of so much that we take for granted in our art, architecture, cuisine, literature, politics, religion, history, language. In From the Fire Hills—part pop-cultural Virgilian Guide Book, part twenty-first-century Grand Tour Baedeker—Davidson traverses this storied, incendiary terrain with what he has elsewhere called his signature ‘Bigfoot Poetics,’ as comfortable among the supper talk of cryptozoologists as it is among the pages of supermarket tabloids."
—Lisa Russ Spaar

"These lovely, complex poems are the notebooks of a cultural commuter, written during his journeys back and forth across the Gothic Lines that divide present from past, memory from experience, private from public. They are bravura performances, full of the nimbleness of mind and form that I have long admired in Davidson's work."
—Geoffrey Brock

"Davidson’s powerful From the Fire Hills is a love song to California and Italy, which is to say it’s a love song to history and language: ‘Even in Italy,/I watched too much TV, conversing not with people/but with language itself,’ Davidson wryly observes. From the Fire Hills is like the beautiful old churches in Italy: ‘Like damaged clocks/they possess and are possessed by history.’ And damage, beauty, and history sing in precise and heartbreaking harmony throughout the book."
—Andrew Hudgins