Destiny Manifest by Nancy Gaffield David Wheatley you may call me the

you may call me the F-word

between husband and wife

a potent instrument wielded to dismantle the oppressive structures that seek to stifle and erase

Perhaps you’ll want to annoy your family by reading them out

she recreates the journey through the 'unpaved and rocky road' of Dante's Hell for a contemporary audience and attempts to do for Caribbean vernacular what Dante did for his Italian language in the fourteenth century – endow it with an entirely new vocal music and power

Destiny Manifest by Nancy Gaffield David Wheatley you may call me theThe poems in this collection were written over a 10 year period, beginning with 'Springtime in the Rockies'. This poem was sparked by an incident in September 2014 where a bowhunter shot and killed a bull moose in an area where the animals had become habituated to people. The title of the collection is based on the 19th century ideology, 'Manifest Destiny', the belief that God gave white Americans the right to expand westward across the North American