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Wild Indigo is a remarkable poetic debut鈥攁 lyric narrative set on a former slave plantation in rural Louisiana, where love, art, and history exert competing claims. The speaker, a Black painter, has inherited the house from his white grandmother鈥攁 bequest that offers solitude and space for his creative work but also forces him to confront the trauma of slavery. His male lover, troubled by the morality of inhabiting such a place, believes the property is deepening his own depression. As the couple reckons with the lover鈥檚 mental state, Korey Williams鈥檚 poems trace a mounting tension between legacy and refusal, creation and complicity. As the story unfolds, Wild Indigo moves through a variety of poetic forms, from the sonnet to haibun, maintaining at once a powerful narrative momentum and the compression and musicality of lyric.

Mixing elements of Southern Gothic and the genre of the artist鈥檚 novel, Wild Indigo is written in the tradition of verse narratives such as Anne Carson鈥檚 Autobiography of Red, Natasha Trethewey鈥檚 Bellocq鈥檚 Ophelia, and Ciaran Carson鈥檚 For All We Know. Dreamy and uneasy, somber and erotic, Wild Indigo asks what it means to make art鈥攁nd to make a life鈥攐n contested ground, where beauty and violence are bound together.