Bright Advent

Aiming for reviews in Publishers Weekly, The Constant Critic, Boston Review, Mantis and Poor Yorik Journal. Selections from Bright Advent have appeared in Hotel Amerika, Rethinking History, and Modern Language Studies, and Strong’s work has also appeared in Jubilat, Spinning Jenny, Diagram, Denver Quarterly, Another Chicago Magazine, and Sentence. co-op funds available

Bright Advent is a reverie on the founding narratives—in language, spirit, and blood—of America.A hybrid incorporating archival material from the 1600s, Bright Advent gives flesh to a ghost of Early American history largely forgotten, specifically the dark and complicated story of the Massachusett Indian John Sassamon and the Puritan missionary John Eliot. Robert Strongis an editor at Common-place and has received fellowships from the Massachusetts Historical Society and the American Antiquarian Society. Previous books include Puritan Spectacle, Joyful Noise: An Anthology, the chapbook Brethren, and the conceptual fiction Manufact Hologram.