Echo's Errand

Lyrically inventive, ekphrastic poems that interrogate art, race, and humanity’s dark history. These poems stress the weight of what it means to speak from and in an already “known” 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 durée of the Middle Passage. The poems then turn to resituate a “you” and “I” in a world, our world, dis