Bright Advent

Bright Advent Synopsis

*This deliciously hard to define narrative follows the burgeoning trend in docupoetry, combining archival research that Robert Strong culled as a Fellow at the American Antiquarian Society with this own imaginings of America in the 1600s.*An introduction to Bright Advent was featured along with a selection of poems in Common-Place: the journal of early American life.*Could draw readers interested in Early American history, particularly the plight of the Native American people.  Specifically, this book's narrative covers the lead-up to King Philip's War: the seventeenth-century translation of the Bible into Algonquian; the Reverend John Eliot and his Indian translator John Sassamon; the "Praying Indian" towns; and the Puritan (and Native American) conversion narratives. *Robert Strong is a poet, writer, and scholar widely recognized for his innovative work combining archival research and literary production. His first full-length collection was completed with the generous assistance of a Mellon research fellowship at the Massachusetts Historical Society.