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Hybrid form blending verse, prose, images, and documents for a multidimensional reading experience
Explores African American ancestry through archival research and imaginative interpretation
Focuses on silenced voices and historical omission to illuminate marginalized histories
Written by renowned poet Lauren Russell, known for her incisive and humanizing work
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Poetry. African & African American Studies. Women's Studies. LGBTQIA Studies. In 2013, poet Lauren Russell acquired a copy of the diary of her great-great-grandfather, Robert Wallace Hubert, a Captain in the Confederate Army. After his return from the Civil War, he fathered twenty children by three of his former slaves. One of those c
