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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 romancewith drugs echoed in the skeletal choirof crickets.Geffrey Davis teaches at Penn State University.
About the Author
Geffrey Davis grew up in Washington and holds degrees from Oregon State University and The Pennsylvania State University. His work has appeared in Crazyhorse, Hayden's Ferry Review, The Massachusetts Review, Mississippi Review, Nimrod, Sycamore Review, and elsewhere. Davis is recipient of the 2014 Anne Halley Poetry Prize, the 2013 Wabash Prize for Poetry, the 2013 Dogwood Prize in Poetry, the 2012 Leonard Steinberg Memorial/Academy of American Poets Prize, nominations for the Pushcart Prize, and fellowships from the Cave Canem Foundation. Revising the Storm (BOA Editions) , winner of the 2013 A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize, is his first book of poetry.
