| #520968 in Books | Trethewey, Natasha D./ Dove, Rita (INT)/ Dove, Rita | 2000-08-01 | 2000-08-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | .36 x.1 x5.99l,.15 | File type: PDF | 70 pages||7 of 7 people found the following review helpful.| Enjoy the Imagery|By M. Johnson|I've never been a big fan of poetry. While there are a few well written poems that I have understood and enjoyed in life, most just seemed like, um, gobbledy-gook on paper. Maybe this stems from the way we teach poetry in this country, but that's a topic for discussion on another day.
These poems of Natasha Trethewey's, though, reall|From Publishers Weekly|With poems based on photographs of African-Americans at work in the pre-civil rights era 20th-century America (not included), Trethewey's fine first collection functions as near-social documentary. In tableaux like "These Photographs" and
Mississippi native Natasha Trethewey, author of "Bellocq's Ophelia" and "Domestic Work," has been awarded the Grolier Poetry Prize and a Pushcart Prize. Her work was also included in "The Best American Poetry 2000." Trethewey now lives in Decatur, Georgia, and is Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Emory University. Winner of the 1999 Cave Canem Poetry Prize Winner of the 2001 Lillian Smith Book Award Winner of the 2001 Mississippi Institute of Arts and ...
You easily download any file type for your device.Domestic Work: Poems | Natasha Trethewey. Just read it with an open mind because none of us really know.
