Position
Poet
Affiliation
Jamaica Plain, MA
2016
In the video above, Sasanov discusses her residency at AAS and reads her poem “Snow Globe (April, 18, 1775) Revere Speaks.” Written from the perspective of Paul Revere, trapped forever on his Midnight Ride, the poem meditates in part on an incident with an enslaved child mentioned in the American Antiquarian Society’s Hugh Hall Papers, 1718-1743. In the poem, Sasanov also juxtaposes Revere’s story with that of the hanged man Revere will forever be riding by: Mark, who after murdering his enslaver in 1755, was executed, gibbeted, and hung by the side of the Cambridge Road.
Read Catherine Sasanov's statement of poetic research for her work Markd Y (Archives & Invocations), which was previously published in Commonplace.