Both epic poem and prayer, Ghost Voices is Quincy Troupe's synthesized spiritual journey giving voice to the African ancestors lost during the Middle Passage. Lacing mythical verse with touches of Yoruba, Candomblé Jejé, and American spiritual, Troupe weaves a history and reimagines from dream state the ones taken and lost between the seas.
Sixteenth-century France was torn apart by the Wars of Religion between Catholics and Protestants. Reconsidering numerous fascinating examples, Reveries of Community argues that French authors used epic poetry to envision a reunified France.
Tahrir Suite is a meditation of mainly tristichs that create an Epic poem rich with symbolic imagery. The ancient namesake, Isis, comes to the contemporary forefront of Egypt’s calamity, bringing the necessary hope, and often overlooked female voice to the center of this very relevant and sublime work of poetry.
