{"product_id":"thrall-poems-paperback","title":"Thrall: Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eNatasha Trethewey\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe stunning follow-up volume to Natasha Trethewey's Pulitzer Prize-winning Native Guard, by the 19th Poet Laureate of the United States.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNatasha 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMeditations 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrall 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eHistorical Poetry: \u003c\/b\u003e Trethewey confronts the past, from colonial casta paintings to Thomas Jefferson's Monticello, weaving personal and national histories into a seamless, searing narrative.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eConfessional Poetry: \u003c\/b\u003e An intimate exploration of a daughter's complicated love for her poet father, examining the small estrangements and shared histories that bind them.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eAfrican American Poetry: \u003c\/b\u003e A vital work that interrogates the language of taxonomy, the legacy of slavery, and the construction of mixed-race identity in the American story.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eSouthern Literature: \u003c\/b\u003e Rooted in the landscape and legacy of the Deep South, these poems capture its complex beauty and painful inheritance with fearless precision.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e19th Poet Laureate of the United States\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e Ripe with the perfidies and paradoxes of thralldom both personal and public, it is utterly elegant. \u003ci\u003e Elle \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Charting the intersections of public and personal history, \u003ci\u003eThrall \u003c\/i\u003eexplores the historical, cultural, and social forces that determine the roles to which a mixed-race daughter and her white father are consigned. In a brilliant series of poems about the taxonomies of mixed unions, Natasha Trethewey creates a fluent and vivid backdrop to her own familial predicament. While tropes about captivity, bondage, knowledge, and enthrallment permeate the collection, Trethewey unflinchingly examines our shared past by reflecting on her history of small estrangements and by confronting the complexities of race and the deeply ingrained and unexamined notions of racial difference in America.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e Natasha Trethewey s \u003ci\u003eThrall \u003c\/i\u003eis simply the finest work of her already distinguished career . . . Rarely has any poetic intersection of cultural and personal histories felt more inevitable, more painful, or profound. David St. John, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Face: A Novella in Verse\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e A voice that not only expands the position of [poetry], but helps us better understand ourselves. Her poems tell stories of loss and reckoning, both personal and historical. Dr. James Billington, Librarian of Congress\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e [AU PHOTO] NATASHA TRETHEWEY was the poet laureate of the United States from 2012 to 2014. \u003ci\u003eN\u003ci\u003eative Guard\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003e her third collection of poetry, received the 2007 Pulitzer Prize. She is the Robert W. Woodruff Professor of English and Creative Writing at Emory University.\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eNATASHA TRETHEWEY was the 2012 poet laureate of the United States, and \u003ci\u003eNative Guard\u003c\/i\u003e, her third collection of poetry, received the 2007 Pulitzer Prize. She is the Charles Howard Candler Professor of English and Creative Writing at Emory University. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 96\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 7.8 x 5.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 22, 2015\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52556151324965,"sku":"9780544586208","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0987\/2487\/2485\/files\/j7yP_5Zwp99780544586208.webp?v=1781364808","url":"https:\/\/c4lhome.com\/products\/thrall-poems-paperback","provider":" Companion for Life Five Home","version":"1.0","type":"link"}