{"id":25365,"date":"2012-09-14T21:39:49","date_gmt":"2012-09-14T21:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=25365"},"modified":"2012-09-16T16:29:27","modified_gmt":"2012-09-16T16:29:27","slug":"%e2%80%98thrall%e2%80%99-by-natasha-trethewey-the-poet-laureate-of-the-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=25365","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Thrall\u2019 by Natasha Trethewey, the poet laureate of the United States"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2018Thrall\u2019 by Natasha Trethewey, the poet laureate of the United States<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The Washington Post<\/a>
\n2012-09-13<\/p>\n

Elizabeth Lund<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thrall<\/a><\/em>. By Natasha Trethewey. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 84 pp.<\/p>\n

Natasha Trethewey\u2019s<\/a> \u201cThrall\u201d is a must-read collection that equals the power and quality of her third book, \u201cNative Guard<\/a>,\u201d which won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize . \u201cThrall\u201d also demonstrates why this 46 -year-old writer is worthy of her recent appointment as poet laureate of the United States<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Trethewey, the daughter of an African American woman and a white man, explores racial attitudes and stereotypes throughout this slim volume, using both personal and historical lenses. The book opens with a gorgeous, understated poem about a fishing trip she and her father took years ago. That experience and their difficult relationship create an underlying tension that shapes the entire book. What readers notice first, though, is the poem\u2019s engrossing imagery:<\/p>\n

drizzle needling<\/p>\n

the surface, mist at the banks like a net<\/p>\n

settling around us \u2014<\/p>\n

everything damp<\/p>\n

and shining…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read the entire review here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u2018Thrall\u2019 by Natasha Trethewey, the poet laureate of the United States The Washington Post 2012-09-13 Elizabeth Lund Thrall. By Natasha Trethewey. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 84 pp. Natasha Trethewey\u2019s \u201cThrall\u201d is a must-read collection that equals the power and quality of her third book, \u201cNative Guard,\u201d which won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize . \u201cThrall\u201d also demonstrates […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,5,8,1617,20],"tags":[11858,1133,2875,2581],"class_list":["post-25365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-book-reviews","category-media-archive","category-poetry-books","category-usa","tag-elizabeth-lund","tag-natasha-trethewey","tag-the-washington-post","tag-washington-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}