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This is a novel based on an incident in the life of Charles Willson Peale, Early American painter, Revolutionary War veteran, inventor, museum founder, farmer. Although he opposed slavery publicly, Peale accepted an enslaved family into his household as payment for a debt. He freed the husband and wife after a few years, but held their son, Moses Williams, until he was 26, and taught him to be a profile cutter, working in his Philadelphia natu...

A powerful narrative that follows the journey of a woman from innocence to empowerment.

As described in Harvard Review, "Joan Aleshire's third collection of poetry, The Yellow Transparents, is about trust. The speaker trusts us to understand and to feel the complexities of trust, to share in her concerns. Our participation is ensured by the poet's voice, the directness of the address, the cleanness of image, as she speaks of childhood dreams extended into the present.

I gripped my strangeness hard/ to feel the pulse in it.

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In this moving book of elegies, the dead mingle with the living. Multiple narratives weave themselves together in these poems, like streams running downhill outside the rooms of human ghosts. Aleshire writes of a loved (lost) one: 'Do you expect me/ to lead? You turned to me once on the highway, / hiking from the stranded plane.// I did, I do--I don't know how/ to answer absence, except by this/ attachment to the tangible, or: desire.