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Phillis (Paperback)
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Phillis (Paperback)
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List price R491
Loot Price R402
Discovery Miles 4 020
You Save R89 (18%)
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Phillis Wheatley was the first African American to publish a book
of poetry. In 1773, her book, Poems on Various Subjects, Religious
and Moral, was published to international acclaim. Wheatley was
presented In London as "the African genius," and her writing was
published in New England and England alike. Phillis Wheatley's name
was known in households throughout literate North America. Yet
Phillis Wheatley was a slave. In Phillis, Alison Clarke reaches
through time to tell the story of this remarkable woman. Through a
series of poems and prose-poems, Clarke presents Wheatley's world
with depth and liveliness, reimagining the past for a modern
audience while bringing sensibility and passion to the story of
Wheatley's life. Wheatley's story is told in first-person poetry
that illuminates significant chapters of her life, capturing the
brilliant heights of her writing career along with the inevitable,
brutal injustices she faced as an enslaved black person in North
America. Interspersed with poems written from the viewpoint of
Black intellectuals and entrepreneurs who were themselves inspired
by Wheatley, this is a collection of poetry that celebrates the
resilience and accomplishments of Black History in general and one
remarkable woman in particular.
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