{"product_id":"revising-the-storm-paperback","title":"Revising the Storm - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGeffrey Davis\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eDorianne Laux\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\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. \u003ci\u003eRevising the Storm\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eSome nights I hear my father's long romance\u003cbr\u003ewith drugs echoed in the skeletal choir\u003cbr\u003eof crickets.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eGeffrey Davis\u003c\/b\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eGeffrey Davis holds an MFA from Penn State University (2012), where he's completing a doctoral dissertation on American poetics. A Cave Canem Fellow, he is also 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 2012 A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize. Davis has poems featured or forthcoming in a variety of journals, among them \u003ci\u003eCrazyhorse, Massachusetts Review, Mid-American Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, Mississippi Review, Nimrod International Journal, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSycamore Review.\u003c\/i\u003e He considers the Puget Sound area home -- though he's been raised by much more of the Pacific Northwest (Tacoma, WA), and now by central Pennsylvania as well. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDorianne Laux's most recent collections are \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Men\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eFacts about the Moon, \u003c\/i\u003e both from W.W. Norton. A finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and winner of the Paterson Poetry Prize, the Oregon Book Award, and The Roanoke-Chowan Award for Poetry, Laux is also the author of \u003ci\u003eAwake\u003c\/i\u003e (her first book of poetry), \u003ci\u003eWhat We Carry, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSmoke\u003c\/i\u003e from BOA Editions. Laux's poetry has appeared in numerous American journals and anthologies, and she has received poetry fellowships from the MacDowell Colony and the National Endowment for the Arts. She teaches poetry in the MFA Program at North Carolina State University and is founding faculty at Pacific University's Low Residency MFA Program.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 96\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 8.9 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 01, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAward:\u003c\/strong\u003e Hurston\/Wright LEGACY Award (2015)\u003c\/div\u003e\n                ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47225814876409,"sku":"9781938160288","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/dU1NaGVuZ3Y5a2FUYWVWMTVqdW55dz09.webp?v=1768252057","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/revising-the-storm-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}