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Thrall (2012)

by Natasha Trethewey(Favorite Author)

4.04 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0547571607 (ISBN13: 9780547571607)

languge

English

genre

Poetry

publisher

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

review 1: Unlike Native Guard, the poems about Trethewey's father are by far superior to her historical reflections. Most of these historical poems are close readings of seventeenth or eighteenth century paintings, which gives these poems a static, rather flat quality, the very opposite of her superbly dynamic poems in Native Guard. "Enlightenment" is a standout, as is "Bird in the House." "Torna Atras" is much better than the other historicals.
review 2: Thrall, which just came out this year, picks up on some of the themese of Trethewey's earlier collection, Native Guard, in its exploration of racial issues. However, it had a different feel from Native Guard. Whereas Native Guard seemed highly personal, Thrall had the sensation of walking through a museum looking at exh... moreibits and artifacts about instances of the mixing of the races throughout history. As the collection goes on, we get back to some more personal poems reflecting Trethewey’s experiences, but that museum sensation lingered for me. Overall, enjoyable, but though it addresses similar themes, it’s presented in a distinctive way. less

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