Choose Your Own America

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As an Immigrant-American, I believe that instead of that propagandic, bald-eagle-point-of-viewed country music video they show at citizenship ceremonies, we would do better with Jon Davis' Choose Your Own America. These poems, both political and nipping at the heart, lyrical and essayistic alike, locate us inside a much more honest and existentially porous dystopian prophesy. Though it suggests we have choices, its disaffected tone makes our souls watch our every move. Where are the humans? it asks-and answers, too."-Ismet Prcic, author of Shards "Davis's poems so deeply probe the human condition that we find ourselves lost in new, perplexing, and unidentifiable territories, where our minds and our preconceived ideas about loss and remembrance, pain and epiphany are completely affected and changed."-June Owens, writing about Scrimmage of Appetite in Manoa