The Little Spokane is a great book, full of life, in all its losses and consolations. Tom Davis is a writer of fierce, unflinching clarity, and what he sees he transforms—the river—itself, the "jest/water makes/ moving"; the lives of the down-and-out, in and around the city; and his own life, his past, observed with intelligence and honesty and precision. All these and more are reawakened, born anew in Tom Davis's living, compassionate vision. Tom Davis is a poet of rare gifts, and The Little Spokane is a singular book, overflowing its banks with wisdom and love.
—Dennis Held
Tom Davis is the land he writes of: Davis has broken himself against basalt and coast from Tacoma to Yakima and beyond—here, in these tight poems, a great and original voice delivers us a poetry as sparse, hard, clear, and original as himself.
—Sebastian Lockwood
Tom I. Davis was born in the town of Milan on the Little Spokane River in eastern Washington State, has lived in the San Juan Islands and worked in the North Cascade Mountains for the Forest Service. He has worked on fishing boats in Alaska and taught aboard Navy vessels in the Western Pacific. Father of seven children, Tom Davis has lived in Spokane for 15 years. The Little Spokane is his first book.