Available now from University Press of Kentucky
A family history
of Scottish genes,
African ancestry,
and American
slavery in verse...
Confronting brutal truths unearthed by the present-day descendant of an enslaved American family
"White’s collection trains the ear and eye of a master poet toward some of the most foundational traumas in the modern world."
—Nate Marshall, author of FINNA
about artress
Artress Bethany White is an award-winning poet, essayist, and literary critic.
Her third poetry collection, A Black Doe in the Anthropocene: Poems, chronicles her family’s history of enslavement in America.
