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88 pages, $10.95
ISBN 0-9660459-1-2
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when the winds
kick up like a
tantrum
everything is a bird
pods fly on
feathered leaves the
marsh grass flails like
grounded herons and
farmers’ sheds give up
flocks of rakes and hoes
the old woman holds steady
even when the wind
scoops up her table and
flies away a
hungry gull before it
nose dives into the bay
—from Skinner’s Neck:
A Chesapeake Sequence
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Writer’s Digest named Almitra David one of “Ten Poets to Watch” in 2000: “Learn from her how to be both tough-minded and variously musical.”
“These are complex and many-layered poems, nothing in them to suggest that it is possible to separate joy from pain, or transformation from tragedy… Almitra David breathes her poetry with grace and ferocity.” —CALYX
“Impulse to Fly offers verbal lucidity, sensuous impact, emotional integrity, wisdom, and…a gallery of unsentimental but vividly compassionate images.”
—Beloit Poetry Journal
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Almitra Marino David (1941–2003) published her first book, Between the Sea and Home (Eighth Mountain Press) in 1993. Her poems and translations have been published in various journals including The American Poetry Review, American Voice, Beloit Poetry Journal, and Ellipses. She retired in 2003 after teaching Spanish at Friends Select School for 15 years.
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