The Age of Phillis in Forms, Found and Free — The Age of Phillis (Roundtable)
In The Age of Phillis, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers takes on a work of Black poetic lineage and matriarchal reclamation that makes scholarship sing. Jeffers’s more traditional pro-sodic engagement mimics the literary ages in which the book occurs: the masterly and capacious eighteenth-century couplets (a...
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| Language: | English |
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2021
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/148554 |
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| Institution: | Nanyang Technological University |
| Language: | English |
| Summary: | In The Age of Phillis, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers takes on a work of Black poetic lineage and matriarchal reclamation that makes scholarship sing. Jeffers’s more traditional pro-sodic engagement mimics the literary ages in which the book occurs: the masterly and capacious eighteenth-century couplets (and centos) of a Pope or Dryden and the globally prescient pantoums and villanelles that echo oral tradition. Yet in addition to the couplets, villanelles, pantoums, and centos of the volume, Jeffers tells a story of embodiment through a more experimental use of form. |
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