Böcker av MD (The Citadel) Davis

THE ARENA "Poetry dedicated to his antagonist? Courage and compassion, that's what this work is all about." - Theresa Kastner "Artistic work of high quality." - Michael Barney; Editor: Gravity Press "Encompasses a world view with impressive sensitivity." - Michael McGrinder, Associate Editor, The Smith "I've enjoyed the talent of William H. Davis Jr. for many years. I'm amazed at his diversity of subject matter. I consider it a privilege to be part of this man's literary accomplishment in 'The Arena'." - Vicki Hawkins, Pres. Jesus Wept Ministries ¿ ¿ ¿ ¿ ¿ ¿¿ ¿ ¿ ¿ ¿ ¿ ¿ ¿ ¿ ¿ ¿ ¿ ¿ ¿ ¿ ¿ ¿ ¿ ¿ ¿ ¿ ¿ ¿ ¿ ¿ ¿ ¿ ¿ ¿ ¿ ¿ ¿ ¿ ¿ ¿ ¿ ¿ After forty years of reckless behavior, William let his life get completely out of control. While suffering an emotional collapse during the breakup of his 22 year marriage, he was involved in a most unfortunate shooting incident with a partially out of uniform police woman. This resulted in a prison sentence. There he discovered the power of higher education. He earned a degree at Lamar State College. While there he began competing in the Lamar State College annual Expressions Literary contest and became the most winning student in their 23-year history. His writing is a blend of his life experiences, his learning and his bizarre imagination. He crosses all lines and wields his pen like a mighty sword. With psychotic intensity he seeks new fields to invade. But beneath his rough exterior, behind the gnarled mask, hidden by the neurotic gesticulation lies a hopeless romantic, a patriot and a captivating character on an endless search for truth. William Davis is proof that every form of genius is rooted in some form of neurosis.

This collection of micro didactics is dissimilar to all collections that have come before it. It is the product of competing in two college literary contests and the taking of a writing course. The contests were at Lamar State College in Beaumont Texas and Eastfield College in Mesquite Texas. Also a writing course offered by the Long Ridge Writers Group. These were the reasons these works were created, but what of the sources? Its sources are as diverse as random chance will allow. They are life experiences that have merged with the learning experiences in the bizarre imagination of the author and tempered with elements from deep within. Two Faces of Beauty may well be called a multigenre work, but still major differences exist with this work. Not just being microdidactic, that is, the most possible information and instructions compressed into the fewest possible words, but the common threads that run through the entire book from work to work regardless of the genre. No matter, short story, essay, autobiographical, or poetry, the threads are there, the threads of duality, justice, poetic or otherwise, and truth. This truth transcends mere research, though research is critical in any story, fiction or nonfiction. I speak here of truth reflected by the world in which we live. These works are wide-ranging and will take the reader from the mountaintops of the human experience to the depths of despair with many stops in between the two.