An award-winning author presents a portrait of Black America in the
nineteenth century Over the course of two decades, award-winning
poet Patricia Smith has amassed a collection of rare
nineteenth-century photographs of Black men, women, and children
who, in these pages, regard us from the staggering distance of
time. Unshuttered is a vessel for the voices of their
incendiary and critical era. Smith’s searing stanzas and
revelatory language imbue the subjects of the photos with dynamism
and revived urgency while she explores how her own past of triumphs
and losses is linked inextricably to their long-ago lives: We ache
for fiction etched in black and white. Our eyes never touch. These
tragic grays and bustles, mourners’ hats plopped high upon our
tamed but tangled crowns, strain to disguise what yearning does
with us. The poet’s unrivaled dexterity with dramatic monologue
and poetic form reanimates these countenances, staring back from
such yesterdays, and the stories they may have told. This is one of
American literature’s finest wordsmiths doing what she does
best—unreeling history to find its fierce and formidable lyric.
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