Selected by David Baker, Green Revolver is the fifth annual winner of the South Carolina Poetry Book Prize and the first published collection by Worthy Evans. These verses resulted from a spontaneous outpouring of poems, pent up during a fourteen-year hiatus from the craft during which Evans worked as a professional reporter, writer, and editor. Much informed by the rapid-fire pace and cadence of his journalism background, Evans's narrative poems are grounded in concrete images of our shared reality and explore a range of imaginative versions of the poet as confident or frightened, loving or...
Selected by David Baker, Green Revolver is the fifth annual winner of the South Carolina Poetry Book Prize and the first published collection by Worth...
from "Never-Ending Birds" That's us pointing to the clouds. Those are clouds of birds, now we see, one whole cloud of birds There we are, pointing out the car windows October. Gray-blue-white olio of birds Never-ending birds, you called the first time years we say it, the three of us, an two of us, one of those just endearments Apt clarities. Kiss on the lips of hope
from "Never-Ending Birds" That's us pointing to the clouds. Those are clouds of birds, now we see, one whole cloud of birds There we are, pointing...
