{"product_id":"thrall-poems-paperback","title":"Thrall: Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eNatasha Trethewey\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e19th Poet Laureate of the United States\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e\"A powerful, beautifully crafted book.\"--\u003cem\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Ripe with the perfidies and paradoxes of thralldom both personal and public, it is utterly elegant.\"\u003cem\u003e--Elle \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Charting the intersections of public and personal history, \u003cem\u003eThrall \u003c\/em\u003eexplores 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e\"Natasha Trethewey's \u003cem\u003eThrall \u003c\/em\u003eis 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 \u003cem\u003eThe Face: A Novella in Verse\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"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\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e19th Poet Laureate of the United States\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e Ripe with the perfidies and paradoxes of thralldom both personal and public, it is utterly elegant. \u003ci\u003e Elle \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Charting the intersections of public and personal history, \u003ci\u003eThrall \u003c\/i\u003eexplores 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e Natasha Trethewey s \u003ci\u003eThrall \u003c\/i\u003eis 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Face: A Novella in Verse\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e [AU PHOTO] NATASHA TRETHEWEY was the poet laureate of the United States from 2012 to 2014. \u003ci\u003eN\u003ci\u003eative Guard\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eNATASHA TRETHEWEY was the 2012 poet laureate of the United States, and \u003ci\u003eNative Guard\u003c\/i\u003e, her third collection of poetry, received the 2007 Pulitzer Prize. 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