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      The Age of PHILLIS

      WESLEYAN POETRY

      The Age of

      phillis

      HONORÉE FANONNE JEFFERS

      WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY PRESS

      Middletown, Connecticut

      Wesleyan University Press

      Middletown CT 06459

       www.wesleyan.edu/wespress

      Copyright © 2020 Honorée Fanonne Jeffers. All rights reserved.

      Manufactured in the United States of America.

      Designed by Richard Hendel

      Typeset in Galliard by Passumpsic Publishing

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      NAMES: Jeffers, Honorée Fanonee, 1967– author.

      TITLE: The age of Phillis / Honorée Fanonee Jeffers.

      DESCRIPTION: Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 2020. | Series: Wesleyan poetry | Includes bibliographical references. | Summary: “A collection of original poems speaking to the life and times of Phillis Wheatley, a Colonial America-era poet brought to Boston as a slave”—Provided by publisher.

      IDENTIFIERS: LCCN 2019040204 (print) | LCCN 2019040205 (ebook) | ISBN 9780819579492 (cloth) | ISBN 9780819579515 (ebook)

      SUBJECTS: LCSH: Wheatley, Phillis, 1753–1784—Poetry. | African American women authors—Poetry. | Women slaves—Massachusetts—Boston—Poetry. | Slavery—Massachusetts—History—18th century—Poetry. | LCGFT: Poetry.

      CLASSIFICATION: LCC PS3560.E365 A74 2020 (print) | LCC PS3560.E365 (ebook) | DDC 811/.54—dc23

      LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019040204

      LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019040205

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      Excerpt from “Genius Child” is from The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes by Langston Hughes, edited by Arnold Rampersad with David Roessel, Associate Editor, copyright 1994 by the Estate of Langston Hughes. Used by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved.

      Excerpt from “mulberry fields” is from The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton. Copyright 2004 by Lucille Clifton. Reprinted with the permission of The Permissions Company LLC on behalf of BOA Editions Ltd., boaeditions.org.

      Excerpt from “Middle Passage.” Copyright © 1962, 1966 by Robert Hayden, from Collected Poems of Robert Hayden by Robert Hayden, edited by Frederick Glaysher. Used by permission of Liveright Publishing Corporation.

      Excerpt from “Heritage.” Copyright 1936 by Countee Cullen.

      Reprinted with permission of Amistad Research Center.

      Cover art by Sanuiah Q. James, 2014.

       for Phillis Wheatley Peters

      CONTENTS

1	Prologue: Mother/Muse
3	An Issue of Mercy #1
	BOOK: BEFORE
7	The Smelting of Iron in West Africa
8	mothering #1
9	Fathering #1
10	Dafa Rafet
11	First-Time Prayer
12	Before the Taking of Goonay
13	Fracture
14	Baay’s Moan with Chorus
15	Entreaty: Yaay
16	An Issue of Mercy #2
17	Found Poem: Detention #1
	BOOK: PASSAGE
23	Blues: Odysseus
24	point of no return
25	The Transatlantic Progress of Sugar in the Eighteenth Century
26	Illustration: “Stowage of the British Slave Ship Brookes Under the Regulated Slave Trade Act of 1788”
27	According to the Testimony to the Grand Jury of Newport, Rhode Island, by Sailors Jonathan Cranston and Thomas Gorton, After Throwing a Negro Woman (Referred to as “Wench”) Alive into the Sea, James DeWolf, Captain of the Slave Ship Polly, Mourned the Loss of the Good Chair to Which He Had Strapped His Victim
29	Catalog: Water
37	Found Poem: Detention #2
	BOOK: AFTER
41	Mothering #2
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