Slavespeare

<p>This book is a meditation on slavery and mastery-twin themes that shape history language and power. Drawing on influences from Early Modern English poets like Spenser and Shakespeare to the innovations of postmodern verse it plays with form and diction bending tradition to suit its own purposes.</p><p>Who wields the word? Who bears the chain? Who wields the word <em>chain</em>-and who among us does not wield the chain of words?</p>