• Night Angler won the 2018 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets.
• Night Angler is the second book by Geffrey Davis, whose previous book, Revising the Storm (BOA, 2014), won the A. Poulin, Jr. Prize and was a finalist for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. Davis has also won the Dogwood First Prize in Poetry, the Wabash Prize for Poetry, and the Leonard Steinberg Memorial/Academy of American Poets Prize.
• Davis has received fellowships from Bread Loaf, Cave Canem, and the Vermont Studio Center.
• Revising the Storm presents a fresh perspective on fatherhood and masculinity, embracing tenderness and self-doubt as essential aspects of a man's identity. By coming to terms with his own complicated relationship with his father, the speaker is able to find a new way to parent his son. Davis's poems will hold a particular appeal for parents, especially fathers affected by the drug/crack epidemic of the '80s and '90s.
• Both the Black Lives Matter movement and fly-fishing feature heavily in Davis's work, offering a rare cross-over appeal for readers interested in racial justice and those interested in outdoors recreational activities.
• Davis has strong regional ties to the Pacific Northwest, in particular the Greater Seattle Area, in addition to his current hometown in Fayetteville, AR.
