| Edition |
First Mariner Books edition. |
| Description |
189 pages ; 21 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Domestic work, 1937 -- Speculation, 1939 -- Secular -- Signs, Oakvale, Mississippi, 1941 -- Expectant -- Tableau -- At the station -- Naola beauty academy, New Orleans, 1945 -- Drapery factory, Gulfport, Mississippi, 1956 -- His hands. |
| Summary |
Layering joy and urgent defiance--against physical and cultural erasure, against white supremacy whether intangible or graven in stone--Trethewey's work gives pedestal and witness to unsung icons. Monument, Trethewey's 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 poet's own family history of trauma and loss, resilience and love. |
| Subject |
Social classes -- Poetry.
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Loss (Psychology) -- Poetry.
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Resilience (Personality trait) -- Poetry.
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American poetry -- 21st century.
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American poetry. (OCoLC)fst00807348
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Loss (Psychology) (OCoLC)fst01002621
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Resilience (Personality trait) (OCoLC)fst01095573
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Social classes. (OCoLC)fst01122346
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| Chronological Term |
2000-2099
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| Genre/Form |
Poetry. (OCoLC)fst01423828
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Poetry.
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| Added Title |
Poems. Selections
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| ISBN |
9780358118237 (paperback) |
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0358118239 (paperback) |
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