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Meanwell: Poems

Meanwell: Poems

Potter, Janice Miller

Paperback

General Poetry

ISBN10: 1937677354
ISBN13: 9781937677350
Publisher: Fomite
Published: Nov 12 2012
Pages: 68
Weight: 0.25
Height: 0.16 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
Meanwell is a twenty-four poem sequence in which a female servant searches for identity and meaning in the shadow of her mistress, poet Anne Bradstreet. Although Meanwell herself is a fiction, someone like her could easily have existed among Bradstreet's known but unnamed domestic servants. Through Meanwell's eyes, Bradstreet emerges as a human figure during The Great Migration of the 1600s, a period in which the Massachusetts Bay Colony was fraught with physical and political dangers. Through Meanwell, the feelings of women, silenced during the midwife Anne Hutchinson's fiery trial before the Puritan ministers, are finally acknowledged. In effect, the poems are about the making of an American rebel. Through her conflicted conscience, we witness Meanwell's transformation from a powerless English waif to a mythic American who ultimately chooses wilderness over the civilization she has experienced.

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