To Love Unquietly

Deborah L. Davitt's To Love Unquietly oscillates between love and desire, life and death, oneness and severance. She masterfully weaves the various elements of relationships into a patchwork tapestry of poetry, which acts as a dark, dusty mirror showing what was, what could be, what could have been, and what is in its beautiful, cobwebbed truthfulness. The thirty poems in this collection are a loving tribute to what it means to be the fragile creatures that we are.

When you look into this volume of poetry, which self will you see?

Deborah L. Davitt was raised in Reno, Nevada, where she graduated first in her class from UNR in 1997 (as Deborah L. McRann). While an undergraduate, she focused heavily on Medieval and Renaissance literature from Beowulf to Shakespeare. She received her ma in English from Penn State in 1999, and later found work as a technical writer on projects ranging from nuclear ballistic missile submarines to nasa to computer manufacturing. She currently lives in Houston, Texas, with her husband and son. She's published over two hundred poems that have appeared over seventy magazines, and her poetry has received Pushcart, Rhysling, and Dwarf Star award nominations. Her prize-winning short stories have appeared in Analog and Lightspeed, and have been translated into Italian and Czech. For more about her work, including her novels and her Elgin-placing poetry collections, Bounded by Eternity and From Voyages Unreturning, please see

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