Sean Hill's debut collection, imaginative in the characters it
invents and in the formal literary traditions it juxtaposes, is
nevertheless firmly rooted in Hill's hometown of Milledgeville,
Georgia, which he transforms into a poetic landscape that can
accommodate the scope of his vision of collective and personal
history. The poems create a call and response across six
generations of family of the fictional Silas Wright, a black man
born in 1907. As Hill takes on the voices and experiences of
diverse characters in or connected to the Wright family, these
individual glimpses add up to an intimate portrait of
Milledgeville's black community across two centuries as it responds
to stirring events both public and private.From a slave woman's
scratchy hay-stuffed mattress to a black insurance agent's sinister
patter, from sweet honey to the searing heat of brickyard kilns,
the poems make vivid the sensuous details of quotidian lives
punctuated by love and violence. From pantoum to haiku, from
high-toned lyricism to low-down blues, Hill uses language in all
its many incarnations to speak deeply about both southern identity
and African American community.
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