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COPY LINK DOWNLOAD: https://reader.ebookexprees.com/yamy/132850784X Urgent new poems on race and gender inequality, and select poems drawing upon Domestic Work, Bellocq&#8217 Ophelia, Native Guard, Congregation, and Thrall, from two-time U.S. Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner Natasha Trethewey.Layering joy and urgent defiance&#8213against physical and cultural erasure, against white supremacy whether intangible or graven in stone&#8213Trethewey&#8217 work gives pedestal and witness to unsung icons. Monument, Trethewey&#8217 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, and Gulf coast victims of Katrina. Through the collection, inlaid and inextricable, winds the poet&#8217 own family history of trauma and loss, resilience and love. In this setting, each poem drawn from an &#8220opus of classics both elegant and necessary,&#8221* 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 poet&#8217 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. *Academy of American Poets&#8217 chancellor Marilyn Nelson&#8220[Trethewey&#8217 poems] dig beneath the surface of history&#8213personal or communal, from childhood or from a century ago&#8213to explore the human struggles that we all face.&#8221 &#8213James H. Billington, 13th Librarian of Congress

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Urgent new poems on race and gender inequality, and select poems drawing upon Domestic Work, Bellocq&#8217 Ophelia, Native Guard, Congregation, and Thrall, from two-time U.S. Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner Natasha Trethewey.Layering joy and urgent defiance&#8213against physical and cultural erasure, against white supremacy whether intangible or graven in stone&#8213Trethewey&#8217 work gives pedestal and witness to unsung icons. Monument, Trethewey&#8217 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, and Gulf coast victims of Katrina. Through the collection, inlaid and inextricable, winds the poet&#8217 own family history of trauma and loss, resilience and love. In this setting, each poem drawn from an &#8220opus of classics both elegant and necessary,&#8221* 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 poet&#8217 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. *Academy of American Poets&#8217 chancellor Marilyn Nelson&#8220[Trethewey&#8217 poems] dig beneath the surface of history&#8213personal or communal, from childhood or from a century ago&#8213to explore the human struggles that we all face.&#8221 &#8213James H. Billington, 13th Librarian of Congress

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