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“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.”
―Chris Abani, author of Sanctificum “...These lines cast and cast through generations of fathers to find music and floods and hands that can deliver both tenderness and violence.”
―Traci Brimhall, author of Saudade “...While you will be lured into this book by its ‘blood-song for/ the marrowed ache and awe of tomorrow,’ you will be released, upon reading the final poem, breathless.”
―Craig Santos Perez, author of [lukao] |
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“...Geffrey Davis translates and transforms our contemporary modes of love, violence and history. Revising the Storm 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.”
―Terrance Hayes, author of American Sonnets “...In these passionate and patiently crafted lyrics of male experience, the most urgent concerns always turn toward others. Revising the Storm has more substance, more searching and satisfying insight, and more emotional intelligence than most first collections. You will want to read it more than once.”
―Julia Spicher Kasdorf, author of Poetry in America “...There are delicate, intricate poems here, stormed by memory, always in motion. If the family is the greatest catastrophe, it is also the source of our most profound joy. Geffrey Davis reminds us how to survive and endure both.” (Foreword)
―Dorianne Laux, author of Only as the Day Is Long |
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