Thrall
Poems
HarperCollins · Print & ebook · September 22, 2015
The stunning follow-up volume to Natasha Trethewey's Pulitzer Prize–winning Native Guard, by the 19th Poet Laureate of the United States.
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- Who it’s for
- These poems bring intimate family estrangement into conversation with the long history of race in America.
- Themes
- Race and American history, Inheritance and captivity, Father-daughter estrangement
- Pacing
- Reflective
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The stunning follow-up volume to Natasha Trethewey's Pulitzer Prize–winning Native Guard, by the 19th Poet Laureate of the United States. 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.
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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.
Private and Historical
These poems bring intimate family estrangement into conversation with the long history of race in America.
Come here for
- Poems joining personal roots with the histories that shape them
- Reflections on inheritance, knowledge, and captivity
Expect
- A deeply personal yet historically attentive voice
- An unsparing reckoning with race, family, and American history
Where it sits
| African American Poetry | 100% |
|---|---|
| American Poetry | 64% |
| Family Poems | 39% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Black & African American Lives
- American Poetry
- African American Poetry
- Asian American Poetry
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- Caribbean & Latin American Poetry
- Place Poetry
- Family Poems
- Political & Protest Poetry
- Authors
- Natasha Trethewey
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Published
- September 22, 2015
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Race and American history · Inheritance and captivity · Father-daughter estrangement
- Reading lane
- Black & African American Lives