Epiphaneia
by Richard Georges
Published by Out-Spoken Press
First edition published in 2019
★ Winner of the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature
Blood runs under the earth. A father will instruct his daughter to the hills where their ancestors are buried. A flying man opens a door in the sky. Children play in the twisted roots of a landscape both dangerous and triumphant. Constantly attuned to the devastating power of nature and where the body, too, is ‘a precarious house’, these poems are hymns to the resilience of the human spirit.
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❧ Praise:
“These poems are astonishing, largely unprecedented. Georges has written a truly living text.” —Kaveh Akbar
“That epiphanic light of discovery is Richard Georges’s gift to us.”
—Earl Lovelace
