Overview
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Layering joy and urgent defianceāagainst physical and cultural erasure, against white supremacy whether intangible or graven in stoneāTretheweyās work gives pedestal and witness to unsung icons. Monument, Tretheweyās first retrospective, draws together verse that delineates the stories of working class African American women, a mixed-race prostitute, one of the first black Civil War regiments, mestizo and mulatto figures in Casta paintings, Gulf coast victims of Katrina. Through the collection, inlaid and inextricable, winds the poetās own family history of trauma and loss, resilience and love.
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In this setting, each section, each poem drawn from an āopus of classics both elegant and necessary,ā* weaves and interlocks with those that come before and those that follow. As a whole, Monument casts new light on the trauma of our national wounds, our shared history. This is a poetās remarkable labor to source evidence, persistence, and strength from the past in order to change the very foundation of the vocabulary we use to speak about race, gender, and our collective future.
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*Academy of American Poetsā chancellor Marilyn Nelson
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This book title, Monument (Poems New and Selected) - 9780358118237, ISBN: 9780358118237, by Natasha Trethewey, published by HMH Books (November 5, 2019) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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