Natasha D Trethewey
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Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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"A chillingly personal and exquisitely wrought memoir of a daughter reckoning with the brutal murder of her mother at the hands of her former stepfather, and the moving, intimate story of a poet coming into her own in the wake of a tragedy."--Dust jacket.
At nineteen Trethewey's world turned upside down when her former stepfather shot and killed her mother. Grieving and still new to adulthood, she confronted the twin pulls of life and death in the...
Author
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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"Layering joy and urgent defiance -- against physical and cultural erasure, against white supremacy whether intangible or graven in stone -- Natasha Trethewey's work gives pedestal and witness to unsung icons. Monument, her first retrospective volume, draws together verses that delineate 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,...
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Series
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"In a shotgun house in Gulfport, Mississippi, at the crossroads of Highway 49, the legendary highway of the Blues, and Jefferson Street, Natasha Trethewey learned to read and write. Before the land was a crossroads, however, it was a pasture: a farming settlement where, after the Civil War, a group of formerly enslaved women, men, and children made a new home. In this intimate and searching meditation, Trethewey revisits the geography of her childhood...
Author
Publisher
Errata Naturae
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
Español
Description
"At nineteen, Natasha Trethewey felt her world crumble when her stepfather killed her mother with two bullets. With penetrating acuity and a passionate voice, Trethewey, a Pulitzer Prize winner in poetry, delves in this dazzling work -- her first in prose--into the unfathomable experience of loss and recalls the brutal event that lastingly shaped the great author into whom was later converted. Through the narration of the abuse suffered by both of...
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Engaging closely with the violence, oppression, and injustice that she witnessed in her lifetime, Muriel Rukeyser was one of the seminal poets of the mid-twentieth century. Closely informed by issues relating to equality, social justice, feminism, and Judaism, her impassioned poetry was often seen as a mode of social protest, but it was also heralded for its deep emotional impact; its personal perspective; forthright discussion of the female experience,...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Featuring a new introduction by Pulitzer Prize winner Natasha Trethewey, a new edition of the bestselling classic by a "magnificent American artist". Born in 1909 in Jackson, Mississippi, Eudora Welty shares details of her upbringing that show us how her family and her surroundings contributed to the shaping not only of her personality but of her writing as well.
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