A history submerged in the ever-shifting currents of the ocean emerges in this debut collection by Richard Georges.
Justice is done." --Andre Bagoo "Singing \'light into bleakness, \' in vivid poetic language that shakes us out of apathy, Georges\' harsh and lyrical hymns portray the painful beauty of the Virgin Islands and Caribbean archipelago." --Loretta Collins Klobah.
His beauteous poems rise like coral islands.
Georges shows all mankind to be one author.
Though the sea divides, it brings redemption.
Gods fall, forgotten paths return, poetry books break and glasses of water kill.
The poet never plots a route. "The voice is placid, and leaves no print of self-conscious style and ego but rather the poems themselves, rolling softly up the beach and then sucking us into a greater history of the sea and our only and sometimes lonely selves-- our i-lands." --Vladimir Lucien "In these pages all roads lead to the sea.
These poems craft narratives of long forgotten migrations, shipwrecks, and the personal with a vivid and sensual aesthetic that is located in the contested spaces between the sea and the shore.
A history submerged in the ever-shifting currents of the ocean emerges in this debut collection by Richard Georges
