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Thrall - Poems

Inglese · Copertina rigida

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Zusatztext Nominated for NAACP Image Award  Los Angeles Time Holiday Books Guide, Poetry Goodreads Choice Awards 2012 Finalist, Best Poetry Finalist, 2013 Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance (SIBA) Book Award Finalist, 2013 Paterson Poetry Prize Finalist, 2013 Phillis Wheatley Book Award, Poetry   "In poems that again exhibit her gift for finding in microcosmic form the specter of societal relations, Trethewey makes explicit historically ignored ideas that underlie (a very literal) enlightenment."— Booklist   " Thrall 's poems draw on Mexico's casta aintings, which were created to catalog the mixed-blood peoples living there under colonial Spanice rule...on a subject ripe with the perfidies and paradoxes of thralldom both personal and public, it is utterly elegant." —Elle Magazine   “[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, Librarian of Congress   “Natasha Trethewey’s Thrall is simply the finest work of her already distinguished career. This remarkable collection carries the reader from troubling ekphrastic reflections upon colonial depictions of mixed race—meditations of superbly nuanced cultural and historical resonance—to a stunningly personal album of self-portraits of the poet with her father. Rarely has any poetic intersection of cultural and personal histories felt more inevitable, more painful, or profound.” —David St. John   “In poems of exquisite tact and clarity, Natasha Trethewey confronts the excruciating differentials of racial mapping and the will-to-knowledge such mapping represents. Through the serial shocks of historical and personal discovery, through meticulous inventories of human division and turnings-aside, above all through “the dark amendment” of acknowledged bonds—the “Thrall” of her title—these poems probe the very foundations of reciprocal understanding.” —Linda Gregerson Informationen zum Autor Natasha Trethewey is a former US poet laureate and the author of five collections of poetry, as well as a book of creative nonfiction. She is currently the Board of Trustees Professor of English at Northwestern University. In 2007 she won the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for her collection Native Guard . Klappentext The 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. Leseprobe Elegy For my father I think by now the river must be thick    with salmon. Late August, I imagine it as it was that morning: drizzle needling    the surface, mist at the banks like a net settling around us—everything damp    and shining. That morning, awkward and heavy in our hip waders, we stalked    into the current and found our places— you upstream a few yards and out    far deeper. You must remember how the river seeped in over your boots    and you grew heavier with that defeat. All day I kept tur...

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Autori Trethewey Natasha Trethewey, Natasha Trethewey
Editore Ecco Press
 
Lingue Inglese
Formato Copertina rigida
Pubblicazione 28.08.2012
 
EAN 9780547571607
ISBN 978-0-547-57160-7
Pagine 96
Categorie Narrativa > Poesia lirica, drammatica

nonfiction;american;america;poetry;american poetry, LITERATURE: WOMEN'S LITERATURE, LITERATURE: AFRICAN AMERICAN, WOMEN'S LITERATURE: LITERATURE/POETRY, LITERATURE: POETRY, AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES: POETRY

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