Echo's Errand

By Keith Jones

• Long-awaited debut collection from an author known for his many chapbooks.
• His poetry chapbook the lucid upward ladder was a finalist for the 2015 Tomaž Šalamun Prize (Verse Magazine).
  
• Boston-based author who is well situated to promote the book.
• The book was acquired through our first open reading for underrepresented poets.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Black Ocean
• Release date: Oct 4, 2022
• ISBN: 9781939568717

Keith Jones

Hello, My name is Keith Jones. I was raised in the Mid-West and now I travel abroad passing on my message to the masses. This is my second book that I am proud ot present to you.

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Copyright © 2022 by Keith Jones

All rights reserved.

To reprint, reproduce, or transmit electronically, or by recording all or part of this manuscript, beyond brief reviews or educational purposes, please send a written request to the publisher at:

Black Ocean

P.O. Box 52030

Boston, MA 02205

blackocean.org

ISBN: 978-1-939568-51-9

Library of Congress Control Number: 2022933041

FIRST EDITION

para mi madre

and

in memory of

my father

Robert William Jones

1934—2008

and

mi abuela

Felicia Fernandez

1914—2005

and

my sister

Carleene Jones

1962—2013

and

William Corbett

1942—2018

and

Laura Townsend

1934—2009

and

my nephew and godson

Ryan Daniel Nessi

1990—2022

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Echo thus lets be heard by whoever wants to hear it, by

whoever might love hearing it, something other than what

[he or she, they or it] seems to be saying

— Jacques Derrida

to be blown into fragments. your death

like the islands that you loved

like the seawall that you wished to heal

— Kamau Brathwaite

if rigor is our dream

— Hortense Spillers

Contents

1

Weightless Clutch of Sea

Lucidities Subtly Notched

Clothed in Crossroads

Is Sinking, Leaking Life