Terra Cognita

Chad Davidson is the author of four collections of poems, most recently Unearth. His essays have appeared in AGNI, the Antioch Review, Five Points, and the Gettysburg Review. He directs the School of the Arts at the University of West Georgia near Atlanta and codirects Convivio, a summer writing conference in Postignano, Italy.

"Terra Cognita will inspire readers to want to travel to Italy, and, by all means, discover their own truths, as well as find the astute meaningfulness that Davidson has wrought."--Allen Gee, author of My Chinese-America "Davidson's skillful prose, deeply invested with humor and pathos, will complicate what you know--and what you think you know--about Italy."--Dionne Irving, author of Quint and The Islands "In Terra Cognita, Chad Davidson clears a space for deeper, richer, far more profound questions and insights about Italy by seeing into the very conditions that render our sight dull and conventional."--Lia Purpura, author of All the Fierce Tethers and Rough Likeness "It's impossible to imagine a better tour guide than Chad Davidson to show us the riches and ruins of Italy. In each of these bustling essays, Davidson veers through Italian cities and towns, brilliantly exploring not only each boots-on-the-ground place but also what lingers in the tourist's memory long after returning home."--Matt Donovan, author of A Cloud of Unusual Size and Shape: Meditations on Ruin and Redemption