Eulogy to an Unknown Tree

by Billy Burgos

In Eulogy to an Unknown Tree, the dense, challenging, and stunning debut collection from Billy Burgos, the poet explores the journeys he has taken -- as a child immigrant growing up in South Central LA, as a grown son dealing with his father's death, as a man grieving the loss of a lover -- anchoring all the grief to a nameless tree by which he spoke to his father for the last time.

Genres: Poetry

130 pages, Paperback

First published November 19, 2012

About the author

Billy Burgos is an Illustrator/Designer/Poet from Los Angeles. He is a Curator on staff at Gotpoetry.com. His poetry has been featured in both Anthologies and Literary Journals and Zines. In 2007 Billy was chosen as an up and coming poet by the L.A. Poetry Festival. He has served as workshop facilitator of the Beyond Baroque Wednesday night workshop and hosts the First Sunday Open Reading at Beyond Baroque. Billy is the host of Word Ballast, a blogtalk poetry show where he has interviewed such poets as Nikki Giovanni, Nikky Finney, Thomas Sayers Ellis and Nick Flynn. His vivid paintings of some of L.A's most interesting poets called The Faces of Poetry is a traveling gallery/poetry exhibit which has been featured in both art journals as well as KCET. His first full length collection of poetry called Eulogy to an Unknown tree is out now on Writ Large Press.