Echo's Errand

Name: Echo's Errand
Brand: Black Ocean

Black Ocean

Lyrically inventive, ekphrastic poems that interrogate art, race, and humanity\u2019s dark history.\nThese poems stress the weight of what it means to speak from and in an already \u201Cknown\u201D world. In this debut collection from Keith Jones, the opening poems tarry with and think alongside the paintings of Cy Twombly. If Twombly is a painter of the Middle Sea, this song series conjures the longue dur\u00E9e of the Middle Passage. The poems then turn to resituate a \u201Cyou\u201D and \u201CI\u201D in a world, our world, disfigured by false and deathly approximations of the \u201Chuman.\u201D Perched on the jagged-edge of how many known and unknown catastrophes, how do we remake, rethink, reimagine, repair in language and act our relations to one another and to the earth? In the thinking and feeling of these poems, the great recursive\n\nEcho's Errand\n\nFree UK delivery on this item.\n\nThis brand new item is available with free UK delivery using Royal Mail tracked services.\n\;