Trafficke

Synopsis

Rigorously Interrogating Three Hundred Years Of Family History In Scotland And Maryland, Trafficke Tracks And Remixes Questions Of Race And Identity, Fact And Legend Into A Mosaic Of Verse, Lyric Prose, Historical Narrative, And Quotation. As It Strips Away The Glamourin The Old Scottish Sense Of A Spell, An Illusiontrafficke Takes Shape Not As A Simple Uncovering Of Truth, But As A Dis-spelling, A Building And Tearing Down Of Identitys Various Disguises, Of Powers Relentless Self-justification, Of The Poets Own Bitterness And Complicity. Stepping Forward And Backward In Time, Sampling Texts That Range From 16th-century Gaelic Poetry To Runaway Slave Advertisements, Tichys Narrative Pulls Readers Through A Many-layered Critique Of Ownership And The Timeless Seduction Of Beauty. Violence And Language, Literacy And Desirethese Too Are Characters In The Lyrical, Fraught, And Grief-charged Text Of Trafficke.--publisher. Susan Tichy.