A hybrid erasure/list poem by Natalie Simpson, Anonymous (Widow) Anonymous (Wife) names the 978 people identified as female in the Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England, a database listing every person recorded in written sources in England from the sixth to eleventh centuries, nearly 20,000 names in total. By singling out female names and occupations, Simpson highlights how very little we know about historical women relative to their male contemporaries. The Blasted Tree has produced a numbered edition of 4.75” x 3.75” chapbooks featuring the poem, each covered with mixed skin paper-parchement manufactured in Europe over a century ago, rivet-bound, and detailed with a deerskin leather thong, available now in our online Store.
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