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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.
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.
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“deeply historical & emotionally personal, I really enjoyed taking my time with this. A few of the poems require you to see the particular painting or picture she’s referencing and I encourage you to do so - the poems are incredibly referential and it’s adds a necessary layer to your understanding. this has me reckoning with my own relationship with my father, but it gives me hope that love & richness isn’t the goal. It’s just to hopefully understand myself more. I don’t get the feeling Natasha and her father got to the place she would have wanted them to be and that’s ok.”
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“so intensely beautiful, a mic of ekphrastic and autobiographical poetry blended seamlessly together to explore ideas surrounding multiracial identity and child-parent relationships…. just so so so beautiful and really hit home for me sometimes”taylor
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About Natasha Trethewey
Natasha Trethewey is a former US poet laureate and the author of five collections of poetry, as well as a book of creative nonfiction. She is currently the Board of Trustees Professor of English at Northwestern University. In 2007 she won the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for her collection Native Guard.
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