Bright Advent

Bright Advent is a reverie on the founding narratives—in language, spirit, and blood—of America.

List of contents

A Historian’s Introduction i
Setting and Characters iii

The Murder, The War 1
The Working, The Living 8
To Gather a Church 44
To Cockenoe’s Island 55
Return 63
King Philip 75
Epilogue 89

Author’s Afterword 95
Historical Timeline 97
Bibliography 100?

About the author

Robert Strong: Robert Strong is an editor at Common-place and has received fellowships from the Massachusetts Historical Society and the American Antiquarian Society. Previous books include Puritan Spectacle, Joyful Noise: An Anthology, the chapbook Brethren, and the conceptual fiction Manufact Hologram.

Summary

Bright Advent is a reverie on the founding narratives?in language, spirit, and blood?of America.

Foreword

Aiming for reviews in Publishers Weekly, The Constant Critic, Boston Review, Mantis and Poor Yorik Journal. Selections from Bright Advent have appeared in Hotel Amerika, Rethinking History, and Modern Language Studies, and Strong’s work has also appeared in Jubilat, Spinning Jenny, Diagram, Denver Quarterly, Another Chicago Magazine, and Sentence.

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Product details

• Authors: Robert Strong
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2017
• EAN: 9781945680045
• ISBN: 978-1-945680-04-5
• No. of pages: 120
• Series: Marie Alexander Poetry Series; Marie Alexander Poetry; Marie Alexander Poetry Series; Marie Alexander Poetry
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous