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A Black Doe in the Anthropocene : Poems / Artress Bethany White ; foreword by Barbara McCaskill.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- White, Artress Bethany, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry--21st century.
- American poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (102 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, [2025]
- Summary:
- A Black Doe in the Anthropocene confronts brutal truths unearthed by the present-day descendant of an enslaved American family--author Artress Bethany White.Following her ancestors' enslavement in 1700s Virginia and North Carolina, White weaves together data from Hairston family plantation archives and her Black Hairston mother's inherited oral.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Also by Artress Bethany White
- Frontispiece
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword by Barbara McCaskill
- The Saura of Stokes County, North Carolina
- Original Sin
- A Family History
- Oral Slave Narrative
- An Extant Slave Receipt Signed Peter Hairston
- Dear Ancestors: On the Occasion of Visiting the Plantation Which Once Governed Your Lives
- A Black Doe in the Anthropocene
- Matrilineal
- Racial Ambiguity
- A Bondage Nocturne
- Encroachment
- Plantation Aubade: Freedom as Lover
- Hemings Family Tour
- When the Enslaved Dream
- What I Will and Will Not Take from a Planter Ancestor
- Crops: Tobacco
- Bill of Sale 1832 December 21st
- On the Occasion of Enumeration
- A Creased Page from a Hairston Plantation Ledger
- Pancakes Keep Coming to Mind: A Sestina Commemorating the Demise of Aunt Jemima on the Pancake Box
- Runners: A Ghazal for Our Times
- Runaway Slave Affidavit Dated March 1831
- Paul, Where You Going to Run To?
- Resurrection
- George's Dilemma, Anno Domini 1777
- Of Bison and Bullets: A Preservation Project
- My Father Singing "John Henry"
- The Negro Girl Letter
- Dear [Negro] Body: A Reply from the Negro Girl to Her Ill-Used Person
- Every Day Can Be Resistance
- Esclave/Schiava/Escrava/Slave
- Back to Africa
- Severed: A Statement on the Ludicrous Nature of African Repatriation
- Notebook of a Return to Africa: Accra, Ghana
- Elmina [Slave] Castle: Est. 1482
- The Vanishing
- Homegoing to Africa as Ars Poetica
- The Origins of an "Americo" in Liberia
- Vibrio Cholerae
- The Good Ship Jupiter
- Sherbro, West Africa
- Home Again
- Reconstruction
- Just in Case They Change Their Minds, Let My Epitaph Read, Free
- Up from Slavery
- A Meditation on the Toppling of the Confederate Statue Silent Sam
- Slivers
- Afterword.
- My African American Sensibility Speaks to My Scottish Genes about the Miniseries Outlander
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- About the Author.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-9859-0264-8
- OCLC:
- 1521266755
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