Tag: Lauren Russell

  • As a biracial woman, Lauren Russell examines her history in “Descent” through many mirrors, from both personal and cultural memories, and through prose, verse, and historical documents, to better understand herself. The title itself suggests a delving, a digging into, and we join Russell as she explores her family’s past like a new land, like…

  • Descent Tarpaulin Sky Press 2020-06-02 120 pages 6 x 0.4 x 9 inches Paperback ISBN: 9781939460219 Lauren Russell In 2013, poet Lauren Russell acquired a copy of the diary of her great-great-grandfather, Robert Wallace Hubert, a Captain in the Confederate Army. After his return from the Civil War, he fathered twenty children by three of…