**The stunning follow-up volume to Natasha Trethewey's Pulitzer
Prize-winning Native Guard, by the 19th Poet Laureate of the United
States.
**Natasha Trethewey's poems are at once deeply personal and
historical--exploring her own interracial and complicated roots--and
utterly American, connecting them to ours. The daughter of a black
mother and white father, a student of history and of the Deep South, she
is inspired by everything from colonial paintings of mulattos and
mestizos to the stories of people forgotten by history.
Meditations on captivity, knowledge, and inheritance permeate Thrall,
as she reflects on a series of small estrangements from her poet father
and comes to an understanding of how, as father and daughter, they are
part of the ongoing history of race in America.
Thrall confirms not only that Natasha Trethewey is one of our most
gifted and necessary poets but that she is also one of our most
brilliant and fearless.