An Amiable Reception for the Acrobat

Poetry. AN AMIABLE RECEPTION FOR THE ACROBAT, Jon Davis’s sixth full-length collection of poems, is jarring and beautiful, and in both cases necessarily so. In her praise of its wisdom and irreverence, Pam Houston has described ACROBAT as a map to hold in our hands as we fly off the end of the world. We advise keeping a copy handy.