DescentPosted in Biography, Books, History, Media Archive, Monographs, Poetry, Slavery, United States, Women on 2021-11-03 21:28Z by Steven |
Tarpaulin Sky Press
2020-06-02
120 pages
6 x 0.4 x 9 inches
Paperback ISBN: 9781939460219
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 his former slaves. One of those children was the poet’s great-grandmother. Through several years of research, Russell would seek the words to fill the diary’s omissions and to imagine the voice of her great-great-grandmother, Peggy Hubert, a black woman silenced by history. The result is a hybrid work of verse, prose, images and documents that traverses centuries as the past bleeds into the present.