Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Poetic Obituaries: A lack of money and a desire for adventure

led him [Adam Davis] away from the university repeatedly.

"College was not real enough for Adam. He was also estranged from his family and on his own since high school," said one of his professors, Terrell Crouch.

When Davis left school for the last time, he had just finished an advanced poetry workshop and he reportedly spent a few months in New York City, but he left after he was badly beaten in an attack.

"He was going to New York to be a poet, which was something that he actually could have been," said Steven Evans, an associate professor at the university.

from Billings Gazette: Man crushed by garbage truck recalled as thoughtful, artistic

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