Description
In Held and Firmly Bound, Nathalie Anderson explores the implications of a family document - a statement of indebtedness between the races in pre-Civil War Charleston. How has a white Carolinian come to owe a substantial sum to Betsey Garrett, identified on the document as a free person of color? How today do we respond to the document's resonating phrase, holding the debtor "held and firmly bound" to repay that debt? Anderson's poems investigate variations on these themes, inviting readers to find reflected in these circumstances our own longing, terror, perplexity, magnanimity, and shame.
Author: Nathalie F. Anderson
Publisher: Muddy Ford Press LLC
Published: 02/15/2017
Pages: 50
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.18lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.10d
ISBN13: 9781942081104
ISBN10: 1942081103
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | American | General
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