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19th Poet Laureate of the United States
Ripe with the perfidies and paradoxes of thralldom both personal and public, it is utterly elegant. Elle
Charting the intersections of public and personal history, Thrall explores the historical, cultural, and social forces that determine the roles to which a mixed-race daughter and her white father are consigned. In a brilliant series of poems about the taxonomies of mixed unions, Natasha Trethewey creates a fluent and vivid backdrop to her own familial predicament. While tropes about captivity, bondage, knowledge, and enthrallment permeate the collection, Trethewey unflinchingly examines our shared past by reflecting on her history of small estrangements and by confronting the complexities of race and the deeply ingrained and unexamined notions of racial difference in America.
Natasha Trethewey s Thrall is simply the finest work of her already distinguished career . . . Rarely has any poetic intersection of cultural and personal histories felt more inevitable, more painful, or profound. David St. John, author of The Face: A Novella in Verse
A voice that not only expands the position of [poetry], but helps us better understand ourselves. Her poems tell stories of loss and reckoning, both personal and historical. Dr. James Billington, Librarian of Congress
[AU PHOTO] NATASHA TRETHEWEY was the poet laureate of the United States from 2012 to 2014. Native Guard, her third collection of poetry, received the 2007 Pulitzer Prize. She is the Robert W. Woodruff Professor of English and Creative Writing at Emory University.
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- Title Thrall: Poems
- Author Natasha Trethewey
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reissue
- Pages 96
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Ecco Press
- Date 2015-09-22
- ISBN 9780544586208 / 0544586204
- Weight 0.25 lbs (0.11 kg)
- Dimensions 7.8 x 5.1 x 0.4 in (19.81 x 12.95 x 1.02 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Caribbean
- Cultural Region: Latin America
- Ethnic Orientation: African American
- Ethnic Orientation: Asian - General
- Library of Congress subjects Interracial marriage, Racially mixed families
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2012017321
- Dewey Decimal Code 811.54
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