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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
September 2012
On Sale: August 28, 2012
84 pages
ISBN: 0547571607
EAN: 9780547571607
Kindle: B006R8PL4E
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Fiction Poetry
he stunning follow-up volume to her 2007 Pulitzer
Prize–winning Native Guard, by America’s new Poet Laureate 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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