First there is this title:
Eve Melville, Canticle
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A name from the depths of humanity.
“Eve”, the mother of the human race.
One name to match another: “Melville,” a man born a slave in Georgia.
And then there is this word “song”, literally
“song of thanksgiving to the glory of God”
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A poem, an incantation that calls upon a celestial language, a divine language.
Justine Bo's magnificent prose.
In his latest novel, the author becomes a bard.
The sentences there are like verses.
It awakens the ghosts and old demons of the United States.
It is the destiny of a country that is being played out under its lines, in the veins of the Melville family.
Gentleness and anger
July 1845. Savannah, Georgia.
A slave gives birth to a boy.
Called Solomon, the child was sent to the indigo plantations in Palo Alto.
There, in the vaporous vats, his index fingers burn, the green water turns blue, his hands red.
He's starving.
He is tortured.
He could die, but one evening a woman told him to run away.
"It turns out that…
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