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dinasamimi's review against another edition
5.0
This is one of the most incredible poetry collections I have ever read! After loving Love Songs last year I had to pick up some poetry from Miss Jeffers. The range of style is incredible, the scope, the subject matter, the RESEARCH! I'm talking about primary source documents, I'm talking about PhD, early America historian level research...for a poetry collection! I've never read anything like it. Incredible as a poetry collection, but also rewriting the wrongs in history's telling of Phillis Wheatley.
sara_shocks's review against another edition
5.0
Outstanding--meticulously researched, such versatile poetic forms, deeply moving poems
inkylabyrinth's review against another edition
I am not smart enough for this book. I wish I was in school and could read it with a class.
frogsinthesummer's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
inspiring
reflective
sad
medium-paced
5.0
ksant's review against another edition
4.0
An amazing anthology of poetry unveiling the courage and genius of Phillis Wheatley, one of America's greatest and earliest poets.
tx2its's review against another edition
4.0
Reading 2022
Book 52: The Age of Phillis by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
Read this book in hopes of listening to @spinesvines discuss with Jeffers. Didn’t get the book done in time, so sadly missed the chat. Also another #20booksbyblackwomen read (Number 11).
Synopsis: In 1773, a young, African American woman named Phillis Wheatley published a book of poetry that challenged Western prejudices about African and female intellectual capabilities. Based on fifteen years of archival research, The Age of Phillis, by award-winning writer Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, imagines the life and times of Wheatley: her childhood in the Gambia, West Africa, her life with her white American owners, her friendship with Obour Tanner, and her marriage to the enigmatic John Peters. Woven throughout are poems about Wheatley's "age"—the era that encompassed political, philosophical, and religious upheaval, as well as the transatlantic slave trade. For the first time in verse, Wheatley's relationship to black people and their individual "mercies" is foregrounded, and here we see her as not simply a racial or literary symbol, but a human being who lived and loved while making her indelible mark on history.
Review: This was a riveting and educational book of poetry. The amount of research that must have gone into putting together this collection was monumental. One thing about reading it on my Kindle was that poems were lined up weird making it harder to get the full meaning. Need to get my hands on the physical book so I can reread and get the full experience. My rating 4⭐️.
Book 52: The Age of Phillis by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
Read this book in hopes of listening to @spinesvines discuss with Jeffers. Didn’t get the book done in time, so sadly missed the chat. Also another #20booksbyblackwomen read (Number 11).
Synopsis: In 1773, a young, African American woman named Phillis Wheatley published a book of poetry that challenged Western prejudices about African and female intellectual capabilities. Based on fifteen years of archival research, The Age of Phillis, by award-winning writer Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, imagines the life and times of Wheatley: her childhood in the Gambia, West Africa, her life with her white American owners, her friendship with Obour Tanner, and her marriage to the enigmatic John Peters. Woven throughout are poems about Wheatley's "age"—the era that encompassed political, philosophical, and religious upheaval, as well as the transatlantic slave trade. For the first time in verse, Wheatley's relationship to black people and their individual "mercies" is foregrounded, and here we see her as not simply a racial or literary symbol, but a human being who lived and loved while making her indelible mark on history.
Review: This was a riveting and educational book of poetry. The amount of research that must have gone into putting together this collection was monumental. One thing about reading it on my Kindle was that poems were lined up weird making it harder to get the full meaning. Need to get my hands on the physical book so I can reread and get the full experience. My rating 4⭐️.
scrow1022's review against another edition
5.0
Dazzling in concept and execution both, individual poems and overall.