When the Eye Forms (Paperback)

Poetry. A Tupelo Press First Book Award chosen by Carolyn Forche. Mississippi babies and Louisiana mommas, New York poster boys, Washington politicians, deformed sons and estranged daughters, examined by an extraordinary poet-doctor. WHEN THE EYE FORMS limns public health, gay themes, maternity, science, the South, Mississippi, Louisiana, Washington, America, and the Mississippi River. Dwaine Rieves, a doctor, practices public-health medicine in Washington, D.C. His poems have appeared in the Georgia Review, Callaloo, Chelsea, the Virginia Quarterly Review, and other publications. He has won a River Styx International Poetry Award.