ISBN: 9780547571607

By unflinchingly charting the intersections of public and personal history, "Thrall" explores the historical, cultural, and social forces--across time and space--that determine the roles … Mehr…

By unflinchingly charting the intersections of public and personal history, "Thrall" explores the historical, cultural, and social forces--across time and space--that determine the roles consigned to a mixed-race daughter and her white father. In a vivid series of poems about interracial marriage depicted in the Casta Paintings of Colonial Mexico, Trethewey investigates the philosophical assumptions that underpin Enlightenment notions of taxonomy and classification, exposing the way they encode ideas of race within our collective imagination. While tropes about captivity, bondage, inheritance, and enthrallment permeate the collection, Trethewey, by reflecting on a series of small estrangements from her poet father, comes to an understanding of how, as father and daughter, they are part of the ongoing history of race in America. """Thrall" not only confirms that Natasha Trethewey is one of our most gifted and necessary poets but that she is also one of our most brilliant and fearless. Media ><

2007, ISBN: 0547571607

The stunning follow-up volume to her 2007 Pulitzer Prize-winning Native Guard, by America's new Poet LaureateNatasha Trethewey's poems are at once deeply personal and historical-exploring… Mehr…

The stunning follow-up volume to her 2007 Pulitzer Prize-winning Native Guard, by America's new Poet LaureateNatasha 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. literature and fiction,poetry Poetry, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt<