Alan Davies

Well, I don't mean to single him out. But as I was listening to the Close Listening interview, it became very clear to me the man was cramped, and carrying a pretty big chunk of repressed anger. At what lengths he went to to prove he didn't believe in truth! Those who do believe in truth, he says, are like fascists.

What a sad knot of a man! Then he discloses he was raised by a minister, and suddenly I could feel all the sad weight of bad fathering and its results.

I think he is just an angrier, less subtle version than we so often see.

He hates Billy Collins poems, too, almost as much as he hates fascists, and I think some of his issues are getting involved. Title of one of his poems? "Bad Dad"

The title of this post is the link to Alan Davies at Pennsound. Thanks for reading.

http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Davies-Alan.php