is a simple, striking, three-part polemic against the continuing slave trade in America's Deep South. It begins with a Prologue, which records the summons to write. [Elizabeth] Barrett Browning overturns the tradition's trope: the poet is visited by a male angel rather than the muse. The nature of the commission is also unusual--to write a curse.from Carol Rumens: The Guardian: theblogbooks: Poem of the week
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