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In 1650, the puritan poet Anne Bradstreet became the first person from British North America to publish a book of poems. The Tenth Muse made her famous, and for almost four centuries, Bradstreet has been canonized, anthologized, studied, and taught. She's remarkable in many ways--partly for her early forms of feminism; partly for her modes of spiritual devotion; partly for the power embedded in her elegies, her love lyrics, her meditations, and her autobiography. Yet while many praise her, others note her failures. She was both far-seeing and near-sighted, a foundational figure for American literature in ways both good and bad, still provoking readers three centuries after she died.Anne Bradstreet Now re-envisions Anne Bradstreet through the powerful writings of some of the most prominent poets in America today. This collection presents the voices of contemporary writers--writers who have won the biggest prizes possible in American letters--to reflect in poetry and prose on Bradstreet's influence, legacy, and lasting significance. In their own poems and essays, these writers direct our attention to diverse contexts in which Bradstreet's work must be understood and re-understood; to the innovations and implications of her writing; and to the ways her work continues to resonate, stun, frustrate, and inspire.
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Death is easy to locate in the archives of early America. Grief is not so easily pinned down. Yet it was a near constant companion for the men and women that settled in what is now New England. Their lives were a kaleidoscope of small-scale tragedies that suffused and colored everyday experiences. This pervasive suffering was exacerbated by unfamiliar environments and exposure to the anguish of Indigenous and Black Americans, unsettling well-worn frameworks to produce new dimensions of everyday grief. Mary Eyring traces these fleeting, often mundane, glimpses of grief in the archives—a note about a sailor maimed during a whaling voyage, the hint of a miscarriage in a court record, the suggestion of domestic violence within a tract on witchcraft, a house sent up in flames at the opening of a captivity narrative—to show how the cumulative weight of grief created a persistent mood that influenced public and private affairs in sweeping ways largely unexamined by previous scholars.With piercing insights and evocative prose, Eyring follows grief across generations and oceans to reveal a language of suffering understood and shared across diverse early American communities.