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Penelope Scambly Schott has done a masterful job of telling the story of Anne Hutchinson - the radical woman preacher driven from the Massachusetts Bay Colony - in a series of poems. Schott does not deviate from the facts of the story, and she includes a recap of events and dates, based on her research. That research is critical, beginning with Anne's birth in England. It is from the documented facts of her life that Schott brings Anne Hutchinson to life.
Poetry is a medium that allows emotion to enter the narrative. Schott envisions Hutchinson standing in front of her - all male - inquisitors, in the late stages of pregnancy. No one alive today knew Anne Hutchinson, and her personality is lost to us; however, in this collection of poems Schott presents Anne as a complete human being and the reader may believe in her personality as it develops from the poetry. I especially enjoy the marriage of poetry and history. I believe that poetry allows history to be presented in greater depth, in a way allows audiences to feel, rather than just memorize a list of facts. It is also interesting to examine how a modern sensibility colors our understanding of events of the past. The poet is inevitably a product of her time, and Hutchinson was a product of hers. In reaching back, out of her own experience, Schott translates 17th experience for the 21st.
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