{"product_id":"monument-poems-new-and-selected-paperback","title":"Monument: Poems New and Selected - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eNatasha Trethewey\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"[Trethewey's poems] dig beneath the surface of history--personal or communal, from childhood or from a century ago--to explore the human struggles that we all face.\" \u003cstrong\u003e--James H. Billington, 13th Librarian of Congress\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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. \u003cem\u003eMonument\u003c\/em\u003e, 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In this setting, each section, each poem drawn from an \"opus of classics both elegant and necessary,\"* weaves and interlocks with those that come before and those that follow. As a whole, \u003cem\u003eMonument\u003c\/em\u003e casts new light on the trauma of our national wounds, our shared history. This is a poet's remarkable labor to source evidence, persistence, and strength from the past in order to change the very foundation of the vocabulary we use to speak about race, gender, and our collective future.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e *Academy of American Poets' chancellor Marilyn Nelson\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eNATASHA TRETHEWEY is a two term US Poet laureate, Pulitzer Prize winner, 2017 Heinz Award recipient, and has written four collections of poetry and one book of nonfiction. An American Academy of Arts and Sciences fellow, she is currently Board of Trustees professor of English at Northwestern University.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 208\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 7.9 x 5.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 05, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52726134473011,"sku":"9780358118237","price":23.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/aXBXdjRRa3orNk9LTlRPSU5RRVVVUT09.webp?v=1763729820","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/monument-poems-new-and-selected-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}