Phebe Davidson

Phebe Davidson is the author of several collections of poems, among them Milk and Brittle Bone, A Note on Demographics, Song Dog, and Back to Square One: New & Selected Poems. Recently retired from what seems, in retrospect, to have been several lifetimes of teaching and writing in a university setting, she describes retirement as the ultimate desideratum, the place and time she most loves being in. Founding editor of Palanquin Press and a staff writer for The Asheville Poetry Review, she lives in Westminster, SC with her husband Steve and their cat Fripp.

Twelve Leagues In
Phebe Davidson
2005 Editor's Choice
ISBN: 978-0974070162, $12.00

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"Spiritual descendent of the Brothers Grimm, Davidson’s dark imagination plunges the reader into familiar but strangely elaborated worlds where our hearts still thump with the terror/pleasure of great storytelling. Rivaling Anne Sexton’s Transformations in re-visioning fairy tales and folk tales, Davidson’s renditions of the characters’ voices are psychologically astute, perfectly chilling, exactly right."  

- Susan Ludvigson

"Phebe Davidson pierces our most primal tales with an unflinching eye. These are poems that go bump in the night. You will never forget them."

- Carolyn Elkins