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Talking with Poet Hannah VanderHart about Her Illuminating Debut Collection, 'What Pecan Light'


Talking with Poet Hannah VanderHart about Her Illuminating Debut Collection, ‘What Pecan Light’
It would be wrong to call Hannah VanderHart’s poems masterful, though at times it is tempting to, anyway.
In “When Someone Says a Poem Is Masterful,” a poem near the end of her first full-length collection,
What Pecan Light, the speaker asks, “who wants to master the body of a poem? (no one should).” A beat later, an admission: “I have a master in my family tree / Jack Allums / he will always be there.”
These are poems that meet the white reader on a common ground, sometimes even the literal ground of a chicken coop, as in “When We Are Not Talking About Race In The South We Are Talking About Race In The South,” and then swiftly ask what is it to farm and be farmed, to cultivate and to reproduce a system of violence. ....

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