Trafficke

Rigorously interrogating three hundred years of family history in Scotland and Maryland, Trafficke tracks and remixes questions of race and identity, fact and legend into a mosaic of verse, lyric prose, historical narrative, and quotation. As it strips away the glamourin the old Scottish sense of a spell, an illusionTrafficke takes shape not as a simple uncovering of truth, but as a dis-spelling, a building and tearing down of identitys various disguises, of powers relentless self-justification, of the poets own bitterness and complicity. Stepping forward and backward in time, sampling texts that range from 16th-century Gaelic poetry to runaway slave advertisements, Tichys narrative pulls readers through a many-layered critique of ownership and the timeless seduction of beauty. Violence and language, literacy and desirethese too are characters in the lyrical, fraught, and grief-charged text of Trafficke.--Publisher.

Year

2015

Language

English

Publisher

Ahsahta Press

Editions

1

Pages

192

ISBN

9781934103609

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