Thrall - by Natasha Trethewey (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><p><i>Thrall</i> examines the deeply ingrained and often unexamined notions of racial difference across time and space. Through a consideration of historical documents and paintings, Natasha Trethewey--Pulitzer-prize winning author of <i>Native Guard</i>--highlight the contours and complexities of her relationship with her white father and the ongoing history of race in America.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>19th Poet Laureate of the United States</b> <br><b>"A powerful, beautifully crafted book."--<i>The Washington Post</i> <p/> "Ripe with the perfidies and paradoxes of thralldom both personal and public, it is utterly elegant."<i>--Elle </i></b> <p/> Charting the intersections of public and personal history, <i>Thrall </i>explores the historical, cultural, and social forces that determine the roles to which a mixed-race daughter and her white father are consigned. In a brilliant series of poems about the taxonomies of mixed unions, Natasha Trethewey creates a fluent and vivid backdrop to her own familial predicament. While tropes about captivity, bondage, knowledge, and enthrallment permeate the collection, Trethewey unflinchingly examines our shared past by reflecting on her history of small estrangements and by confronting the complexities of race and the deeply ingrained and unexamined notions of racial difference in America. <p/><b>"Natasha Trethewey's <i>Thrall </i>is simply the finest work of her already distinguished career . . . Rarely has any poetic intersection of cultural and personal histories felt more inevitable, more painful, or profound." --David St. John, author of <i>The Face: A Novella in Verse</i> <p/> "A voice that not only expands the position of [poetry], but helps us better understand ourselves. Her poems tell stories of loss and reckoning, both personal and historical." --Dr. James Billington, Librarian of Congress</b> <br><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br><b>19th Poet Laureate of the United States</b><br /><b> Ripe with the perfidies and paradoxes of thralldom both personal and public, it is utterly elegant. <i> Elle </i></b><br /> <br /> Charting the intersections of public and personal history, <i>Thrall </i>explores the historical, cultural, and social forces that determine the roles to which a mixed-race daughter and her white father are consigned. In a brilliant series of poems about the taxonomies of mixed unions, Natasha Trethewey creates a fluent and vivid backdrop to her own familial predicament. While tropes about captivity, bondage, knowledge, and enthrallment permeate the collection, Trethewey unflinchingly examines our shared past by reflecting on her history of small estrangements and by confronting the complexities of race and the deeply ingrained and unexamined notions of racial difference in America.<br /> <br /><b> Natasha Trethewey s <i>Thrall </i>is simply the finest work of her already distinguished career . . . Rarely has any poetic intersection of cultural and personal histories felt more inevitable, more painful, or profound. David St. John, author of <i>The Face: A Novella in Verse</i><br /> <br /> A voice that not only expands the position of [poetry], but helps us better understand ourselves. Her poems tell stories of loss and reckoning, both personal and historical. Dr. James Billington, Librarian of Congress</b><br /> <br /> [AU PHOTO] NATASHA TRETHEWEY was the poet laureate of the United States from 2012 to 2014. <i>N<i>ative Guard</i>, </i> her third collection of poetry, received the 2007 Pulitzer Prize. She is the Robert W. Woodruff Professor of English and Creative Writing at Emory University.<br />"<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><b>Nominated for NAACP Image Award <br><i>Los Angeles Time </i>Holiday Books Guide, Poetry <br>Goodreads Choice Awards 2012 Finalist, Best Poetry <br>Finalist, 2013 Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance (SIBA) Book Award <br>Finalist, 2013 Paterson Poetry Prize <br>Finalist, 2013 Phillis Wheatley Book Award, Poetry </b> <p/>"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."--<i>Booklist</i> <p/>"<i>Thrall</i>'s poems draw on Mexico's <i>casta</i> 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." <i>--Elle Magazine</i> <p/>"[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 <p/> "Natasha Trethewey's <i>Thrall </i>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 <p/> "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<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>NATASHA TRETHEWEY was the 2012 poet laureate of the United States, and <i>Native Guard</i>, her third collection of poetry, received the 2007 Pulitzer Prize. She is the Charles Howard Candler Professor of English and Creative Writing at Emory University. <br>
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