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Poetry, Biography, and the Unknowable: On Two New Books About Phillis Wheatley
Hollis Robbins reviews Vincent Carretta’s “Phillis Wheatley Peters: Biography of a Genius in Bondage” and David Waldstreicher’s “The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley: A Poet’s Journeys Through American Slavery and Independence.”
Phillis Wheatley Peters: Biography of a Genius in Bondage by Vincent Carretta.
University of Georgia Press 2nd Ed., 2023. 328 pages.
The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley: A Poet’s Journeys Through American Slavery and Independence by David Waldstreicher. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023.
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496 pages.
TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY years after the publication of Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral, there is no easy way to know—or to feel that you know—its author, Phillis Wheatley. She was a young African woman, perhaps 19 years old, who had arrived in Boston a dozen years before her book’s release, kidnapped, bedraggled, on a ship from the coast of Africa.
She never spoke or w