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Trafficke

Susan Tichy

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Description:Rigorously interrogating three hundred years of family history in Scotland and Maryland, Trafficke tracks and remixes questions of race and identity, fact and legend into a mosaic of verse, lyric prose, historical narrative, and quotation. As it strips away the glamour—in the old Scottish sense of a spell, an illusion—Trafficke takes shape not as a simple uncovering of truth, but as a dis-spelling, a building and tearing down of identity’s various disguises, of power’s relentless self-justification, of the poet’s own bitterness and complicity. Stepping forward and backward in time, sampling texts that range from 16th-century Gaelic poetry to runaway slave advertisements, Tichy’s narrative pulls readers through a many-layered critique of ownership and the timeless seduction of beauty. Violence and language, literacy and desire—these too are characters in the lyrical, fraught, and grief-charged text of Trafficke. “Yeats orders others to ‘cast a cold eye’; Susan Tichy teaches herself to sustain ‘the long gaze of the vanishment.’ By pursuing her family history into vanishment, Tichy’s Trafficke discovers the backstory behind the backstory. By listening both to ‘something my mother told me’ and to ‘something she never told me,’ Tichy makes her gaze not cold, as Yeats instructs, but hard. She achieves the ‘rash exactitude’ that makes hers ‘the gaze / swept backward into pure rock.’ Trafficke is lithic and windswept, not so much written as hewn.” —Harvey Hix “‘If ignorance is innocence / all is true all is false.’ Thus Trafficke plows under the surface of our collective amnesia and unearths a family past—beginning in Reformation Scotland, ending in slavery’s abolition in Maryland—that is our American past. History and myth, treachery and self-preservation, prose and verse collide and change places, caught in the dialectic eddies and splinters of Tichy’s luminous formal invention. This is work of piercing lyric intelligence and fearless heart. Trafficke changes all the rules.” —Peter StreckfusWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Trafficke. To get started finding Trafficke, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 178

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Ahsahta Press

Release: 2015

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Description: Rigorously interrogating three hundred years of family history in Scotland and Maryland, Trafficke tracks and remixes questions of race and identity, fact and legend into a mosaic of verse, lyric prose, historical narrative, and quotation. As it strips away the glamour—in the old Scottish sense of a spell, an illusion—Trafficke takes shape not as a simple uncovering of truth, but as a dis-spelling, a building and tearing down of identity’s various disguises, of power’s relentless self-justification, of the poet’s own bitterness and complicity. Stepping forward and backward in time, sampling texts that range from 16th-century Gaelic poetry to runaway slave advertisements, Tichy’s narrative pulls readers through a many-layered critique of ownership and the timeless seduction of beauty. Violence and language, literacy and desire—these too are characters in the lyrical, fraught, and grief-charged text of Trafficke. “Yeats orders others to ‘cast a cold eye’; Susan Tichy teaches herself to sustain ‘the long gaze of the vanishment.’ By pursuing her family history into vanishment, Tichy’s Trafficke discovers the backstory behind the backstory. By listening both to ‘something my mother told me’ and to ‘something she never told me,’ Tichy makes her gaze not cold, as Yeats instructs, but hard. She achieves the ‘rash exactitude’ that makes hers ‘the gaze / swept backward into pure rock.’ Trafficke is lithic and windswept, not so much written as hewn.” —Harvey Hix “‘If ignorance is innocence / all is true all is false.’ Thus Trafficke plows under the surface of our collective amnesia and unearths a family past—beginning in Reformation Scotland, ending in slavery’s abolition in Maryland—that is our American past. History and myth, treachery and self-preservation, prose and verse collide and change places, caught in the dialectic eddies and splinters of Tichy’s luminous formal invention. This is work of piercing lyric intelligence and fearless heart. Trafficke changes all the rules.” —Peter StreckfusWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Trafficke. To get started finding Trafficke, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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