Natasha Trethewey
The stunning follow-up volume to her 2007 Pulitzer Prizeâ€“winning ,Native Guard,, by Americaâ€™s new Poet Laureate,Natasha Tretheweyâ€™s poems are at once deeply personal and historicalâ€”exploring her own interracial and complicated rootsâ€”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.
Poetry,History,Cultural,African American,Nonfiction,Womens,Contemporary,American,African American Literature,Female Authors,Race,Poetry Plays
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