A Sunday in God-Years takes its title from the notion that if we consider ourselves inside the long stretch of geologic time, human history happens in the blink of God s eye as he rolls over during a Sunday nap. The book is centered around the long poem A Reckoning made up of fifteen shorter poems/sections (some sections are documents like wills and runaway slave notices). This long poem tries to reckon and recognize the sticky webs that bind the heirs of those who were slave holders (like the Boisseaus) and of those who were held as slaves.
A Reckoning builds the context for...
A Sunday in God-Years takes its title from the notion that if we consider ourselves inside the long stretch of geologic time, human history ...
