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Martin, Herbert Woodward

2001 0-7734-3422-4
Co-Winner of the 1998 Mellen Poetry Press Contest Prize This epic poems shows some of the minute details of the slavery period: the voyage, the sometimes suicides of the captives, the attempts to escape and the rewards advertised by the slaveholders. The is able to capture different voices and tones, in accord with his different subjects. Past, present, and future converge, with the slave ship as symbol.