The Recognizable Inside the Unrecognizable: Review of Geoffrey D. Morrison’s The Coffin of Honey

Ben Berman Ghan Under Review:The Coffin of Honey. Geoffrey D. Morrison. Coach House, May 2026. The world is not the world we know, and yet everything is familiar. The countries and alliances and languages that we have come to expect have been radically transformed, and yet, at the core of things, so many powers seem to have remained unchanged, unaffected, or, if anything, have grown even more obstinate in the face of transformation. Then, in the midst of this transformed yet recognizable future, the unexplainable and unfamiliar arrives, floating in the sky, disrupting everything we think we know. This is the great gift of Geoffrey D Morrison’s The Coffin of Honey, which is set 44 years after a series of new communist revolutions leave the world in a state of constant tension between the “communards” and the capitalists who have become, if anything, only more aggressive in the face of alternate modes of being. From this new status quo, a poet (who doesn’t want to be a poet anymore), a…