EPIPHANEIA E-Book

Richard Georges

• Herausgeber: Out-Spoken Press
• Kategorie: Poesie und Drama
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 24

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2019

Beschreibung

'They say birds always find their way back home but home is a nowhere — a memory; a never was.' Set in the immediate aftermath of 2017's Hurricane Irma, the most catastrophic storm to strike the British Virgin Islands, Richard Georges' Epiphaneia stands as a collection of rich, transcendental verse. Beyond the loss and devastation that such a natural disaster brings, Georges' ideas span beyond the physical world, asking us to consider the ways in which families and communities come together amidst such tragedy.

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First edition published 2019

ISBN: 978-1-9160468-4-9

ePub ISBN: 978-1-9160468-9-4

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Epiphaneia

Richard Georges

Acknowledgements

I would like to express my gratitude to the following publications and their editors where these poems first appeared: The Poetry Review, Reservoir, L’Ephemere, Susumba, PUNCH, Visual Verse, and The White Review.

My undying thanks to Tavia and my family for allowing me my writing life, and gratitude for my litany of supporters and collaborators including: Anthony Anaxagorou, Tony Shearsman, Michelle Tudor, Peter Barnfather, David Knight Jr., Priscilla Hintz Rivera Knight, Joseph Hodge, Patricia Turnbull, Natalio Wheatley, Sauda Smith, Cedric Turnbull, Katherine Smith, Vladimir Lucien, Loretta Collins Klobah, Andre Bagoo, Ishion Hutchinson, Rajiv Mohabir, Raymond Antrobus, Shivanee Ramlochan, Sophia Walker, Sandeep Parmar, Preti Taneja, Pascale Petit, Kaveh Akbar, Lasana Sekou, John Robert Lee, Traci O’Dea, Freeman Rogers, Marsha Pearce, Ayanna Gillian Lloyd, Tanya Batson-Savage, Alscess Lewis-Brown, Will Barrett, Jill Abram, Ann-Margaret Lim, Cadwell Turnbull, Tiphanie Yanique, Emily Berry, Kamaal Lettsome, Arturo Desimone, Des Seebaran, Jannine Horsford, Simone Leid, Ana Portnoy Brimmer, Erika Jeffers, and April Glasgow. Forever appreciation to my teachers and mentors in this poetry thing, in particular Ruth Ellen Kocher, Matthew Francis, Denise deCaires Narain, and Sam Solomon.

Contents

Epiphaneia

Dead Reckoning

On Remembering, Or Dreams of Remembering

Too Full of Vermouth and Cigarette Smoke

Genealogies

The Logic of Perceiving

Rituals

Believer

Pathfinder

Crown Shyness

The Storm is Here and a New World is Awakening

An Inventory for Survival

Still Life of a Ruin

A Longer Loneliness

Altricial

The Year Has Become More Beautiful

Thanks

Notes on Road Town

Still,

Listening

Postlude: This beach is not a beacon

Essentials

The Transmutation of Grief

Origin

Becoming an Answer

Heartache is for Lovers, and Other Lies We Tell Ourselves

Thoughts on Reincarnation

Prometheus the Titan Descends with Fire

A Mixtape for Tortola

epiphaneia (e-pē-fä'-nā-ä)

An appearing, appearance.

often used by the Greeks of a glorious manifestation of the gods, and especially of their advent to help; in 2 Macc. of signal deeds and events betokening the presence and power of God as helper.

for Mona K., for Leslie