num_pages: 84
description: The stunning follow-up volume to her 2007 Pulitzer Prizewinning Native Guard by Americas new Poet LaureateNatasha Tretheweys poems are at once deeply personal and historicalexploring her own interracial and complicated rootsand 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.
language: English
title: Thrall
publisher: Ecco