Layering joy and urgent defianceagainst physical and cultural erasure, against white supremacy whether intangible or graven in stoneTretheweys work gives pedestal and witness to unsung icons.Monument, 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.Author: Natasha Trethewey. Hardcover; 208 pages.

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