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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 Prizeβwinning Native Guard, by Americaβs new Poet Laureate Natasha Tretheweyβs poems are at once deeply personal and historicalβexploring her own interracial and complicated rootsβand 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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