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Mary Hilton
A True Relation
of the State May Last

11 pages
1996

 

This first publication of the primitive chapbook series uses as a basis writings about the "new world" - America.

This work explores the writings of John Rolfe and his impressions of Jamestown, taking such language and twisting it into a statement on exploration and wilderness.


"In this government happened all the mystery
wherein it still contynueth.
other seedes and fruites in all
as the Countrie affordeth naturally
Townes and Seates from anie assault"