Split the Crow

by Sarah Sousa

Overview

“The poems of Sarah Sousa’s Split the Crow employ archaeology as a means of giving voice not only to the land, but to long-gone peoples. We discover the objects that individuals were equipped with for their final journeys, as well as witnessing their tales. Sousa’s work picks up where conventional history has left off, giving voice to urgent testimonies. ‘The Lost People,’ states, ‘On the train coming east, / not knowing what else to do, boys sang / the death songs our warriors sang riding into battle,’ just one of many instances where Native American accounts find a ready home in Sousa’s poetry. Split the Crow is a collection of tremendous magnitude that calls upon the past as a way to reconsider our present moment.” —Mary Biddinger

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781602356375
Publisher:	Parlor Press, LLC
Publication date:	01/06/2015
Series:	Free Verse Editions
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	84
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

Sarah Sousa’s poems have appeared in The Massachusetts Review, Fugue, Passages North, Barn Owl Review, and Salt Hill Journal, among others. Her first collection, Church of Needles, won the Red Mountain Prize (Red Mountain Press, 2014). She is the editor and transcriber of The Diary of Esther Small; 1886, holds an MFA from Bennington College, and lives in Western Massachusetts with her husband and two sons.