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Trethewey Natasha Trethewey
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November 2019
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Trethewey Natasha Trethewey
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Publisher
Ecco Press
Published
November 2019
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Urgent new poems on race and gender inequality, and select poems drawing upon Domestic Work, Bellocq's Ophelia, Native Guard, Congregation, and Thrall, from two-time U.S. Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner Natasha Trethewey.
Layering joy and urgent defiance--against physical and cultural erasure, against white supremacy whether intangible or graven in stone--Trethewey's work gives pedestal and witness to unsung icons. Monument, Trethewey's first retrospective, draws together verse that delineates the stories of working class African American women, a mixed-race prostitute, one of the first black Civil War regiments, mestizo and mulatto figures in Casta paintings, and Gulf coast victims of Katrina. Through the collection, inlaid and inextricable, winds the poet's own family history of trauma and loss, resilience and love.
In this setting, each poem drawn from an "opus of classics both elegant and necessary,"* weaves and interlocks with those that come before and those that follow. As a whole, Monument casts new light on the trauma of our national wounds, our shared history. This is a poet's remarkable labor to source evidence, persistence, and strength from the past in order to change the very foundation of the vocabulary we use to speak about race, gender, and our collective future.
*Academy of American Poets' chancellor Marilyn Nelson
"[Trethewey's poems] dig beneath the surface of history--personal or communal, from childhood or from a century ago--to explore the human struggles that we all face." --James H. Billington, 13th Librarian of Congress
Author
Trethewey Natasha Trethewey
Book Format
Paperback
Publisher
Ecco Press
Published
November 2019
Weight
205g
Dimensions
13.5 x 20.1 x 1.8 cm
ISBN
9780358118237
ISBN-10
0358118239
Eden Code
4980446
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Author/Creator: Trethewey Natasha Trethewey
ISBN: 9780358118237
Publisher: Ecco Press
Release Date: November 2019
Weight: 205g
Dimensions: 13.5 x 20.1 x 1.8 cm
Eden Code: 4980446