A Single Star: An Anthology Of Christmas Poetry

by David Davis (Compiler)

Genres: Poetry, Christmas

128 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1973

About the author

David Davis documents the culture of sports through words, images, and sound.

His work has appeared in Sports Illustrated, Smithsonian Magazine, Los Angeles Magazine, Orange Coast Magazine, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Chicago Tribune, The San Francisco Chronicle, LA Weekly, The Forward, SB Nation, Deadspin, The Classical, Los Angeles Review of Books, Only A Game, LAObserved.

Currently, Dave is a contributing writer at Los Angeles Magazine and a contributing editor at “SportsLetter,” published by the LA84 Foundation.

Reviews

[Jenn Little]

This book was ok. In the introduction he mentions that he didn't want to include, "the most hackneyed and the most obvious" Christmas poems. I appreciate that goal! If every editor of Christmas poetry included the same 50-100 poems we would never discover new favorites among the myriads of poems written about this time of year and especially Christ's coming to earth! Unfortunately his choices fell flat for me. I found myself looking forward to the several "hackneyed and obvious" entries just to break of the monotony of meh.

[Sarah]

Seemed quite adult poems for a puffin book.