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Chargement... Penelope: The Story of the Half-Scalped Woman--A Narrative Poem (Contemporary Poetry Series)par Penelope Scambly Schott
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. The poet tells the story of Penelope Stout, 17th century immigrant to the New World and an early settler of New Jersey, in a series of linked poems. The little that is known about Penelope Stout is woven into the poems along with imagery drawn from the Odyssey, Lenape language and customs, and feminism. I was drawn to it because Penelope Stout is a distant ancestor. The poems are written from Penelope Stout's perspective, and reading the collection helped me to imagine her as a living, breathing person who was more than a name and a legend to her family and neighbors. The book includes an afterword that explains which aspects of the poems are true and which are imagined, as well as a bibliography listing works that form the basis of the poet's knowledge of Penelope Stout and her circumstances. The collection will appeal to readers with an interest in early New Jersey or Dutch history as well as to the many descendants of Penelope Stout. ( ) Penelope: The Story of the Half-Scalped Woman by Penelope Scambly Schott is a short poetic sequence narrated by Penelope Stout, a young English woman, who sailed with her husband from Holland to America in the early 17th c. Their ship went aground at Sandy Hook, and Penelope and her husband were attacked by Lenape Indians. He was killed; she was left for dead. But eight days later, she was rescued by Machk, a warrior who took her back to the tribe where she was healed. She was "rescued" from the tribe by English and Dutch settlers, subsequently remarried, had 10 children and died at 92 with over 500 living descendants. The narrator of the poem is a woman who embraces life and savors the society both of her compatriots and the Native Americans who rescued her. The open verse poems briefly evoke historic events and events in Penelope's long life, but they carry a fair amount of emotional weight. SALVAGE The sea is flotsam of sea foam and dust. Twirl your stick in its socket of dry wood; fire pierces the old wound. The sell of the world cracks loose. Who so fierce as a woman in labor? Only the gaping, hollow sea. Penelope pulls for shore. Recommended as a quick hour's read. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
"The poet's journey into the past and another culture, fired by eponymous inspiration, leads to discoveries, a new appreciation of lost moments. To bridge three centuries and create a verbal portrait though a picture is lacking is quite an achievement. Naturally, this effort will be compared to John Berryman's great poem about Anne Bradstreet, but to no harm."--David Ray "In this fascinating sequence Penelope Scambly Schott poignantly re-imagines a devastating story in language that brings together the sensibilities of centuries distant in time but not, at their most intimate, in feeling. She invokes her namesake with urgency and tact, a remarkable combination."--Rosellen Brown This brilliant tour-de-force narrates the life of a woman shipwrecked in the 1640s on the shores of modern-day New Jersey, axed in the belly, half-scalped and left for dead by the Lenape Indians, then nursed back to health by them and taken into the tribe. And that's only the beginning. Penelope Scambly Schott has carefully researched the facts and woven them into a poetic page-turner. She cites her sources, provides a glossary and, best of all, indicates what is fact and what is fiction. Her technique is well chosen: the interior monologues, mostly of the heroine, Penelope Kent van Princis Stout, and, in a few poems, those of her namesake, the author. A more distant Penelope, the wife of Odysseus, is also invoked. The poems take us directly into the mind and heart of a strong woman, who is extraordinary partly because she thinks she is ordinary. With craftsmanship and feeling, Schott has limned unforgettable characters whose lives transcend the mostly ignoble history of settler-Native American relations. Penelope Scambly Schott is the author of three previous collections of poems, most recently The Perfect Mother, which won the Violet Reed Haas Prize for Poetry. She has also been awarded four fellowships by the New Jersey Council on the Arts. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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