OKOYOMON, Precious
But Did You Die?

Precious Okoyomon’s latest collection of poems combines their signature divinely-inspired lyricism with vivid illuminations. Okoyomon’s pantheism-in-verse brings the sensibility of their sublime installations to the page with poems that are as expressive as they are formally inventive. This delicate book weaves an unprecedented braid of poetry, experimental writing and drawing. [publishers’ note]

“Precious is every kind of artist but they could only be a poet. They ‘also’ barge into every world, their work is pure manifesto, stopping to laugh, it's bawdy and pretty, handsome, cataclysmic and righteous. it's food. It's impatient and entirely on their own time and I think they touch ours, everyone else's, in a burn the earth Jimi Hendrix way. No, they’re post him. the earth is burnt. Precious starts there.”
—Eileen Myles

Published by Wonder, 2024
Design by Tiffany Malakooti
Poetry / Artists' Books