Revising the Storm

This debut collection by Cave Canem fellow Geffrey Davis burrows under the surface of gender, addiction, recovery, clumsy love, bitterness, and faith. The tones explored--tender, comic, wry, tragic--interrogate male subjectivity and privilege, as they examine their "embarrassed desires" for familial connection, sexual love, compassion, and repair. Revising the Storm also speaks to the sons and daughters affected by the drug/crack epidemic of the '80s and addresses issues of masculinity and its importance in family.

Some nights I hear my father's long romance
with drugs echoed in the skeletal choir
of crickets.

Geffrey Davis holds an MFA and a PhD from Penn State University. A Cave Canem fellow, Davis is the recipient of the 2013 Dogwood First Prize in Poetry, the 2012 Wabash Prize for Poetry, the 2012 Leonard Steinberg Memorial/Academy of American Poets Prize, and the 2013 A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize. He currently teaches at the University of Arkansas.


Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: BOA Editions
Published: 04/01/2014
ISBN: 9781938160288
Pages: 91
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.40d
Award: Hurston/Wright LEGACY Award - Nominee

Review Citations: Booklist 04/01/2014 pg. 14
Publishers Weekly 03/31/2014
Library Journal 04/15/2014 pg. 86