{"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","url":"https:\/\/shop.boaeditions.org\/products\/revising-the-storm","provider":"Boa Editions","version":"1.0","type":"link"}