Description
The stunning follow-up volume to Natasha Trethewey's Pulitzer Prize-winning Native Guard, by the 19th Poet Laureate of the United States.
Natasha Trethewey's poems are at once deeply personal and historical--exploring her own interracial and complicated roots--and utterly American, connecting them to ours. The daughter of a black mother and white father, a student of history and of the Deep South, she is inspired by everything from colonial paintings of mulattos and mestizos to the stories of people forgotten by history.
Meditations on captivity, knowledge, and inheritance permeate Thrall, as she reflects on a series of small estrangements from her poet father and comes to an understanding of how, as father and daughter, they are part of the ongoing history of race in America.
Thrall confirms not only that Natasha Trethewey is one of our most gifted and necessary poets but that she is also one of our most brilliant and fearless.
Author: Natasha Trethewey
Publisher: Ecco Press
Published: 09/22/2015
Pages: 96
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.25lbs
Size: 7.80h x 5.10w x 0.40d
ISBN13: 9780544586208
ISBN10: 0544586204
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | American | Asian American & Pacific Islander
- Poetry | Caribbean & Latin American
Natasha Trethewey's poems are at once deeply personal and historical--exploring her own interracial and complicated roots--and utterly American, connecting them to ours. The daughter of a black mother and white father, a student of history and of the Deep South, she is inspired by everything from colonial paintings of mulattos and mestizos to the stories of people forgotten by history.
Meditations on captivity, knowledge, and inheritance permeate Thrall, as she reflects on a series of small estrangements from her poet father and comes to an understanding of how, as father and daughter, they are part of the ongoing history of race in America.
Thrall confirms not only that Natasha Trethewey is one of our most gifted and necessary poets but that she is also one of our most brilliant and fearless.
Author: Natasha Trethewey
Publisher: Ecco Press
Published: 09/22/2015
Pages: 96
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.25lbs
Size: 7.80h x 5.10w x 0.40d
ISBN13: 9780544586208
ISBN10: 0544586204
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | American | Asian American & Pacific Islander
- Poetry | Caribbean & Latin American
About the Author
NATASHA TRETHEWEY was the 2012 poet laureate of the United States, and Native Guard, her third collection of poetry, received the 2007 Pulitzer Prize. She is the Charles Howard Candler Professor of English and Creative Writing at Emory University.