{"title":"Geffrey Davis","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eGeffrey Davis is the author of three books of poems, most recently \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eOne Wild Word Away\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e (BOA Editions, Ltd., 2024). Davis's second book, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eNight Angler \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e(BOA Editions, Ltd., 2019), received the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets; and his debut, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eRevising the Storm \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e(BOA Editions, Ltd., 2014), received the A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize and was a Hurston\/Wright Legacy Award Finalist. His poems have been published by \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eNew England Review\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e, ​​\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThe New York Times Magazine\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eOrion Magazine\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e​, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eOxford American\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e, PBS NewsHour, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003ePloughshares\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e, and elsewhere. Raised by the Pacific Northwest, he served as Poetry Editor for Iron Horse Literary Review and is a core faculty member of The Rainier Writing Workshop. Davis currently lives in the Ozarks, where he teaches full-time with the Program in Creative Writing \u0026amp; Translation at the University of Arkansas.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"revising-the-storm","title":"Revising the Storm","description":"\u003ch4\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eFinalist for the 2015 Hurston\/Wright Legacy Award for Poetry\u003cbr\u003eOne of \u003cem\u003eLibrary Journal\u003cspan\u003e’\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003es \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThirty Amazing Poetry Titles for Spring 2014\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e”\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the 2013 Anne Halley Poetry Prize\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis 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. \u003cem\u003eRevising the Storm\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e“\u003c\/strong\u003eMy Last Love Poem for a Crackhead, #23\u003cstrong\u003e”\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSome nights I hear my father’s long romance \u003cbr\u003ewith drugs echoed in the skeletal choir\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eof crickets. At each approach, a silence\u003cbr\u003ecuts in. And I wonder which part speaks more\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eto this dance with addiction: the frailty of concord\u003cbr\u003eor the hard certainty of the coda’s chain?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI know these are only insects being insects,\u003cbr\u003emerely a strumming of lust into the heavy,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003esummer air. Still, something in me asks for\u003cbr\u003ea new piece of music to yoke to his cravings—\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eperhaps just the need to shuffle off and sing\u003cbr\u003emy own restlessness back to sleep.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI want him to be beautiful again.\u003cbr\u003eHe fucked us over— he did, but breakdown\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ediminishes everyone. Let me decide\u003cbr\u003ethat he never lied or stole more than necessary.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003ePraise for \u003cem\u003eRevising The Storm\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eRevising the Storm\u003c\/em\u003e is one of the best first books I’ve read in a good while. Its subjects—childhood, an absentee father, marriage, divorce, re-marriage, birth—are not new, but the approach is fresh, the language lyrical, and the poems well-tuned and masterfully wrought. Geffrey Davis is spellbinding. Like a fine artist, he knows how to bring even the smallest heartbreaking detail to light.” \u003cstrong\u003e—Dorianne Laux\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Geffrey Davis translates and transforms our contemporary modes of love, violence and history. \u003cem\u003eRevising the Storm\u003c\/em\u003e feels written by a poet who has traversed several previous lives and honed them into a language of beautiful survival. Urgent, tender, imaginative: this is a tremendous debut.” \u003cstrong\u003e—Terrance Hayes\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Geffrey Davis interrogates masculinity— as brother, son, father, lover—to examine the sources of love’s enduring and failed aspects ... I admire Davis’s emotional vocabulary, his attentive generosity and tenderness. Keep your eye on this gifted newcomer.” \u003cstrong\u003e—Robin Becker\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Thematically, Davis hits some strong subjects: missing fathers, marriage and divorce, early years and rebirth, all painful twists of reality and even sentimentality that make families too close for comfort yet often beyond reach … Davis’s poems are sweeping, lyrical glimpses into masculinity, violence, drug use, and history.” \u003cstrong\u003e—\u003cem\u003eBooklist\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Acutely aware of myriad meanings to each assertion and of the many versions of each story, these poems are strongest where they push through poetic narrative about personal experience to create poetry where storytelling itself is subverted … Continuously challenging himself to ‘[t]ell it right this time,’ Davis displays an elegant tenacity that begs to be unleashed on subjects beyond personal history.” \u003cstrong\u003e—\u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Never prosaic but always knowable, the collection is in itself a storm that passes slowly but never disappears entirely … It is a feat for Davis to create so much tenderness here without being precious. All his subjects, even the loathsome ones, are beloved. All his speakers are filled with hope, always seeking a new definition for humane, constantly revising the storms inside themselves.” \u003cstrong\u003e—\u003cem\u003eThe Rumpus\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne of five “sizzling books you must slip into your travel bag this summer.”  \u003cstrong\u003e—Amtrak, National Railroad Passenger Corporation\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“A mother crying alone in her kitchen, a hungry boy unable to sleep in his bed, the unbearable weight cast by an absent father—these quotidian and universal miseries are by no means exclusive to the world of poetry, but when rendered in verse by a talented poet such as Davis, readers bare witness with new eyes. Revising the Storm is a considerable collection replete with the dark troubles and misfortunes of life that only serve to make its moments of beauty that much brighter.” \u003cstrong\u003e—\u003cem\u003eLA Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“This is a book of poems for those who believe in the cathartic power of poetry and its ability to render meaning from pain. Despite its lagging moments, Revising the Storm succeeds at transforming loss and grief into something worth sharing, and beyond any discussion of Davis’s romantic conceits or clever self-reflexivity, doesn’t that matter more? After all, if poetry can’t save us from our suffering, what can?” \u003cstrong\u003e—\u003cem\u003eZone 3\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003ch6\u003e© BOA Editions, Ltd. 2014\u003c\/h6\u003e","brand":"BOA Editions, Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":8420295237,"sku":"9781938160288","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/products\/RevisingTheStorm_HiResFront.jpg?v=1527683334"},{"product_id":"night-angler","title":"Night Angler","description":"\u003ch3\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThis title is available on audiobook. Grab your copy here, or wherever you listen to audiobooks!\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ciframe src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/1880569923\u0026amp;color=%23ff5500\u0026amp;auto_play=false\u0026amp;hide_related=false\u0026amp;show_comments=true\u0026amp;show_user=true\u0026amp;show_reposts=false\u0026amp;show_teaser=true\" height=\"166\" width=\"100%\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc; line-break: anywhere; word-break: normal; overflow: hidden; white-space: nowrap; text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-weight: 100;\"\u003e\n\u003ca style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"BOA Editions\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/justine-alfano\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBOA Editions\u003c\/a\u003e · \u003ca style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"9781960145512 005 MP3\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/justine-alfano\/9781960145512-005-mp3\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e9781960145512 005 MP3\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eWinner of the James Laughlin Award\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGeffrey Davis’s award-winning second collection of poems reads as an evolving love letter and meditation on what it means to raise an American family.\u003c\/strong\u003e In poems that express a deep sense of gratitude and wonder, Davis delivers a heart-strong prayer that longs for home, for safety for Black lives, and for the messy success of breaking through the trauma of growing up during the 1980s crack epidemic to create a new model of fatherhood. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eExcerpt from \"\u003cstrong\u003ePillow Kombat with the Ultimate Sleep Fighter\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLike in a video game, size does nothing\u003cbr\u003eto decide advantage:—my demure son\u003cbr\u003ethrows his demure weight around our family bed\u003cbr\u003ewith resolve, and so I revolve inside discomfort’s\u003cbr\u003eorbit, the planet of my sleepiness demoted, \u003cbr\u003edwarfed—unstudied! Just as I reach my parental\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ethreshold of self-denial, just as I go to reinstate\u003cbr\u003ethe matter of physics—\u003ci\u003eenergy\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eforce\u003c\/i\u003e—he executes\u003cbr\u003ehis special move: a combo of lovey words struck\u003cbr\u003ehalf-consciously across the dark, launching me\u003cbr\u003einto another vain-cycle search for deep space\u003cbr\u003eshuteye. Then his favorite toy sheep tucked between\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003emy folded arms (FINISH HIM!). Then the fresh delicacy\u003cbr\u003eof his foot plopped upon my forehead (FATALITY).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003ePraise for\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eNight Angler\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“A strong second work after \u003cem\u003eRevising the Storm\u003c\/em\u003e that will resonate with any reader interested in the ties that lovingly bind.” \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“From love letters and prayers surrounding youth, fatherhood, and family—to a river that holds the solace of fishing and life in the South—the book constantly evolves. Davis’s narrative poems comment on the mistreatment, the wonder, and the hope surrounding black lives, not only in the South, but in America as a whole.” \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eArkansas International\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“The poems in Geffrey Davis’s \u003ci\u003eNight Angler\u003c\/i\u003e sing in both ecstatic joy and tremendous lament. We partake in the rituals of fatherhood—both coming into and growing out of the spiritual bond. We witness the anguish of loss but also the possibilities of childhood. And in that threshold between life and death where all fathers and sons traverse, the brilliant harmonies of understanding arise in rainbowed arcs like epiphanic trout rising to kiss the sun. Poetry and prayer have never shared so close a breath.” \u003cb\u003e—Oliver de la Paz\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“In Geffrey Davis’s stunning collection \u003ci\u003eNight Angler\u003c\/i\u003e there is a grace fathered by risk, a wonder mothered by worry. These lines cast and cast through generations of fathers to find music and floods and hands that can deliver both tenderness and violence. This is the book I want to give to all the parents in my life so they can see their own struggles and songs and be reminded that the lessons we offer our children are often the ones we need most, that ‘there are those who touch a body and leave it graceful: be that kind of wonder.’” \u003cb\u003e—Traci Brimhall, author of \u003cem\u003eSaudade\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e”Geffrey Davis’s poems reveal the small slants of light, the unusual turns of fate, the near invisible machinations—of humans and nature—that ripple through everything with consequences, yet also always with a breathless and radiant redemption. Love, fatherhood, family, loss are all engaged with lyrically and with a deeply engaging and persuasive insight. Davis is a quietly brilliant poet.” \u003cstrong\u003e—Chris Abani, author of \u003ci\u003eSanctificum\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e© BOA Editions, Ltd. 2019\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BOA Editions, Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46624037503205,"sku":"9781942683780","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":46624037535973,"sku":"","price":5.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/products\/NightAngler_CVR_with_seal-min.jpg?v=1539174283"},{"product_id":"one-wild-word-away","title":"One Wild Word Away","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAudiobook now available!\u003cspan\u003e\u003ciframe src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/1752998142\u0026amp;color=%23ff5500\u0026amp;auto_play=false\u0026amp;hide_related=false\u0026amp;show_comments=true\u0026amp;show_user=true\u0026amp;show_reposts=false\u0026amp;show_teaser=true\" height=\"166\" width=\"100%\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc; line-break: anywhere; word-break: normal; overflow: hidden; white-space: nowrap; text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-weight: 100;\"\u003e\n\u003ca style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"BOA Editions\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/justine-alfano\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBOA Editions\u003c\/a\u003e · \u003ca style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" title='Sample of \"One Wild Word Away\" by Geffrey Davis' href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/justine-alfano\/sample-of-one-wild-word-away-by-geffrey-davis\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eSample of \"One Wild Word Away\" by Geffrey Davis\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhen tensions veer between hope and despair, the ensuing fracture can swing like a scythe \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eand cut a ragged seam between past and present.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e In\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e One Wild Word Away,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e Geffrey Davis \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eweaves a deft set of poems about illness, family, loss, and rebirth. The luxurious sonics and crisp \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003edescriptions in each line are haunted by grief and buoyed by love as the speaker confronts \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003egenerational trauma and the loss of a loved one while in the process of raising his own son.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\n\u003cem\u003ePraise for One Wild Word Away\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“In \u003cem\u003eOne Wild Word Away\u003c\/em\u003e, Geffrey Davis imagines a song that contains all the contradictions within us, a song to guard against illness, loss, and death, all the old stories of our past. He imagines a new story, too, one that ‘brightens something else between us.’ This book is that song. We can hear it, this love, and ‘It hums like mercy.’” \u003cstrong\u003e—Blas Falconer, author of \u003cem\u003eForgive the Body This Failure\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“‘Only LOVE’ is at the heart of this honest, searching new collection by Geffrey Davis in which tender and intricate language transforms raw material: a stuttering marriage, the ghost of a father's addiction, the hauntings of a hard past in a newly-hard, newly-hopeful present...I will turn to this book when I need someone to help me find my way back to that most complicated and simple act: love.” \u003cstrong\u003e—Elizabeth Bradfield, author of \u003cem\u003eToward Antarctica\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BOA Editions, Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46624014074085,"sku":"","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":46624014106853,"sku":"","price":5.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/files\/OneWildWordAway_7x9_CVR_SM_1.jpg?v=1701110110"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/collections\/GDavis_2018.jpg?v=1701109779","url":"https:\/\/shop.boaeditions.org\/collections\/geffrey-davis.oembed","provider":"Boa Editions","version":"1.0","type":"link"}