Memoirs of a Fallen Angel

About the Book

With the publication of his first collection of poems, Love’s Silence, Andrew Davis celebrated the warmth and the gentleness of romantic and spiritual love.

In Memoirs of a Fallen Angel, Davis presents a remarkable collection of poems spanning the range from honoring the divine to his effortlessly beautiful poems of love and desire. He speaks with painful clarity in chronicling the experience of being an abused and abandoned child. Davis takes on pretentiousness and false religiosity among those who speak of love, tolerance and forgiveness but use these facades to wrap and present carefully orchestrated bigotry.

This collection is not for the weak, the shy, or the uncertain of faith. Davis unapologetically takes us to that place where we all may stray in private moments, but dare not speak of publicly.

These poems range from the beautifully resonant, “God’s Sweet Silent Glory.” A work which celebrates the wondrousness of God’s creation, to the raw and licentious, “Rock into My Soul,” to the chilling, “My Father.”

The poems within are the memoirs of a child, abused, abandoned, and forgotten by family and society; the confessions of a man, hated because he will not lie so that others may be comfortable in their intolerance. The child who became a man and found an unforgiving world of intolerance, bigotry and hatred. These are confessions of life: ugly, engaging, lonely, sad and somehow beautiful.

We become soundly implicated with every ‘confession’ and find ourselves both speaker and innocent bystander. These poems are about life and loss. They speak to us, they come from within us. They struggle before us, just as we struggle in life.

These poems take us from the sublime majesty of God’s greatness to the utter depths of anguish. In Memoirs of a Fallen Angel, Davis lays bare those private experiences which are universal to all humans. He takes us without fear and shame to that place where we all stand in utter despair and in the darkness of human existence cry out - “Why!”

Within the confines of Memoirs of a Fallen Angel, Davis takes us within our self-built prison walls, then asks why we have build such.

Nothing is sacred, no one is spared.

About the Author

Quentin Andrew Davis is a native son of the South, born and raised in Huntsville, Alabama. Memoirs of a Fallen Angel, is Andrew’s second collection of poetry. When he isn’t busy with his writing, Andrew has a home on the lake and fills his free time with photography, travel, cooking, drawing, and his computer. He is currently completing an autobiographical novel about his childhood in rural Alabama. His hopes are to one day write stage and screen plays.