The Name for the God Who Speaks: Poems
Gregory Byrd$13.56
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The poems in The Name for the God Who Speaks reference Caribbean deities, the power of weather and landscape and ancient myths to illuminate an annus horribilis of cancer and loss. In the last poems, youth and music redeem the experience. This is the Name for the God who Speaks Father, you would know these primal prayers,
light flashing in the west behind live oaks,
a sky-slashed language dead after Conquest.
From that living world, we share only lightning,
an old god speaking light out of darkness,
a chant of rain as alphabet where water flowing
is a word.
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Texas Review Press
Published: 06/25/2019
ISBN: 9781680031867
Pages: 38
Weight: 0.15lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.10w x 0.20d
light flashing in the west behind live oaks,
a sky-slashed language dead after Conquest.
From that living world, we share only lightning,
an old god speaking light out of darkness,
a chant of rain as alphabet where water flowing
is a word.
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Texas Review Press
Published: 06/25/2019
ISBN: 9781680031867
Pages: 38
Weight: 0.15lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.10w x 0.20d