Furious Dusk

Rhina P. Espaillat, judge of the 2014 Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize, describes Furious Dusk, David Campos's winning collection, as "a work whose five parts trace a son's efforts-only partially successful-to fulfill his father's expectations and-perhaps even more difficult-understand those expectations enough to forgive them." The poet's reflections are catalyzed by learning of his father's impending death, which, in turn, forces him to examine his father's expectations against his own evolving concept of what it means to be a man.

Author: David Campos
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
Published: 02/15/2015
Pages: 86
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 8.80h x 5.80w x 0.30d
ISBN: 9780268023775

Review Citation(s):
New York Review of Books 05/07/2015 pg. 30

About the Author
David Campos lives in Fresno, California, where he teaches English at Fresno City College. His poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Boxcar Poetry Review, Huizache, The Packinghouse Review, Verdad, and Miramar, among other journals and magazines.