Author: Adam Dressler

Adam L. Dressler is Assistant Editor of Parnassus. His poems have appeared in The New Criterion, Raritan, and The Yale Review.
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Echoes and Ashes: Adam Dressler on Davis McCombs

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Reviewed: Dismal Rock by Davis McCombs. Tupelo Press, 2007. 62 pages.

Like the phantom farmers, sorters, and curers who haunt “Tobacco Mosaic,” the eighteen-poem sequence that opens his second collection, Davis McCombs, the deserving recipient of both a Yale Younger Poet award and the Dorset Prize, works with a quiet, practiced confidence.… continue reading...