Monument: Poems New and Selected By Trethewey, Natasha Natasha Trethewey,

Name: Monument: Poems New and Selected By Trethewey, Natasha Natasha Trethewey,
Brand: ECCO

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MonumentPoems New and Selected\nAuthor(s): Natasha Trethewey\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc, United States\nImprint: ECCO Press\nISBN-13: 9780358118237, 978-0358118237\nSynopsis\nMonument, Tretheweys 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 poets own family history of trauma and loss, resilience and love.\n\nIn this setting, each section, each poem drawn from an opus of classics both elegant and necessary,* 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 poets remarkable labor to source evidence, persistence, and strength from the past in order to change t.