Runagate: Songs of the Freedom Bound

by Crystal Simone Smith

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Crystal Simone Smith’s new poetry collection, Runagate, reimagines the experiences of enslaved and formerly enslaved persons in a stark and chilling response to the archives of chattel slavery: bills of sale, interviews, narratives, and fugitive runaway ads. Embodying the aesthetics and Japanese poetic forms haiku and tanka, her poems bear witness to the brutal and horrifying treatment of enslaved people and contrast their humanity with the inhumanity of their enslavers. In these poems, fugitive persons evade slave patrol hounds by climbing magnolia trees, use the cover of night and the detritus of a shipwreck to swim to freedom, and...Read more
  • ISBN10 1478028580
  • ISBN13 9781478028581
  • Publish Date 15 April 2025
  • Publish Status Forthcoming
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Duke University Press
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 104
  • Language English