Description FREE VERSE EDITIONS, edited by JON THOMPSON "Something magical happens in these pages-we are waked from forgetfulness and are pulled into a living history that revives us and spares us nothing.
Split the Crow is a collection of tremendous magnitude that calls upon the past as a way to r. \'The Lost People, \' states, \'On the train coming east, / not knowing what else to do, boys sang / the death songs our warriors sang riding into battle, \' just one of many instances where Native American accounts find a ready home in Sousa\'s poetry.
Sousa\'s work picks up where conventional history has left off, giving voice to urgent testimonies.
We discover the objects that individuals were equipped with for their final journeys, as well as witnessing their tales.
And this poet is not just smart, she\'s wise." -ELLEN DORE WATSON "The poems of Sarah Sousa\'s Split the Crow employ archaeology as a means of giving voice not only to the land, but to long-gone peoples.
From \'Her Moods Caused Owls\': "Once there was a girl who spoke / garlands\' and (four lines later) \'her fear caused gardens.\' This brilliant, idiosyncratic book rides the wave of language and consciousness rather than narrative, to breathtaking effect.
Weaving through centuries of Native American material culture, Sousa walks no straight lines.
I had been dying to read this book until I read it
I did not know what I lacked until I was sated." -TJ JARRETT "Split the Crow is rife with surprise, rich with inventive images from the natural world, and delicious with music.
In spite of this, Split the Crow shows all that is human is transitive.
Sousa bares essential truths of our young country; we have struggled all along defining ourselves by othering.
In exploring the narrative of Mary Rowlandson, Split the Crow employs lyric to stop time, draw it close, and inspect it on its own terms without being either pedantic or patronizing.
The reader demands: \'we want /what is real, don\'t deny us\' and Sousa does not disappoint.
Description FREE VERSE EDITIONS, edited by JON THOMPSON "Something magical happens in these pages-we are waked from forgetfulness and are pulled into a living history that revives us and spares us nothing
