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Runagate: Songs of the Freedom Bound book cover by Crystal Simone Smith
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Runagate: Songs of the Freedom Bound

by Crystal Simone Smith

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Hardcover · 104 pages Duke University Press · 2025

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Runagate

Crystal Simone Smith’s new poetry collection, Runagate, reimagines the experiences of enslaved and formerly enslaved persons in a stark and chilling response to the archives of chattel slavery: bills of sale, interviews, narratives, and fugitive runaway ads. Embodying the aesthetics and Japanese poetic forms haiku and tanka, her poems bear witness to the brutal and horrifying treatment of enslaved people and contrast their humanity with the inhumanity of their enslavers. In these poems, fugitive persons evade slave patrol hounds by climbing magnolia trees, use the cover of night and the detritus of a shipwreck to swim to freedom, and find temporary refuge in a cabin where a woman offers bread and water. Throughout, Smith poignantly envisions their flights to freedom—passages that were fueled by love, hope, and impossible dreams. She unceasingly gives voice to those who found courage in both bondage and freedom. In Runagate, the enslaved regain their stories and return to the sensory world.

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Publisher
Duke University Press
Author
Crystal Simone Smith
Format
Hardcover
Published
May 16, 2025
ISBN-13
9781478028581
ISBN-10
1478028580
Pages
104
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