What Pecan Light Poems
What Pecan Light Poems by Han VanderHart, published by Bull City Press in 2021, is a poetry collection that explores the intricate histories of family and identity. Spanning 61 pages, this edition delves into the speaker’s familial connections in the South, examining themes of whiteness and complicity within historical contexts. The poems reflect on the economic, agricultural, and military roots that shape the speaker’s lineage, offering a nuanced perspective on the complexities of heritage.
Readers will find that the collection engages with significant symbols and historical realities, including the Confederate flag and the legacy of a plantation-owner ancestor. VanderHart’s work confronts the enduring impacts of racial violence and the personal narratives intertwined with these themes. Through vivid imagery and poignant language, What Pecan Light invites contemplation on family entwinements and the societal structures that influence them.
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“With attention to the histories that make and sustain a family-its generations, its roots in certain soils-What Pecan Light exhumes a family’s long entwinements in the South and whiteness. Excavating the economic, agricultural, and military roots of the speaker’s family tree, the poems of this collection unearth the speaker’s complicity in the institutions of whiteness: “I was willing / to love a polluted thing.” Against a narrative of innocence, the poems engage the abiding symbol of the Confederate flag, the historical fact of an enslaving, plantation-owner great-grandfather, and the enduring harm of racial violence: ‘Bitter collards. Rib bones smoking / against our teeth.’”–
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