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by: Natasha Trethewey
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 811.6
EAN: 9781555973094
ISBN: 1555973094
Label: Graywolf Press
Manufacturer: Graywolf Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 64
Publication Date: September 01, 2000
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Sales Rank: 510998
Studio: Graywolf Press
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Book Description:
In this debut collection, Natasha Trethewey draws moving domestic portraits of families, past and present, caught in the act of earning a living and managing their households. Small moments taken from a labor-filled day reveal the equally hard emotional work of memory and forgetting, the extraordinary difficulty of trying to live with or without someone.
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Rating:  - Enjoy the Imagery
I've never been a big fan of poetry. While there are a few well written poems that I have understood and enjoyed in life, most just seemed like, um, gobbledy-gook on paper. Maybe this stems from the way we teach poetry in this country, but that's a topic for discussion on another day.
These poems of Natasha Trethewey's, though, really speak to me. After hearing an interview with the author my interest was picqued, and so I bought her Native Guard book. I enjoy the voices and points ... Read More
Rating: - The debut collection of her poetry
Natasha Trethewey has won the Grolier Poetry Prize and her individual pieces have been widely published in a variety of places. Domestic Work is the debut collection of her poetry and will well serve to introduce her work to a whole new audience of appreciative readers. Housekeeping: We mourn the broken things, chair legs/wrenched from their seats, chipped plates,/the threadbare clothes. We work the magic/of glue, drive the nails, mend the holes./We save what we can, melt small pieces/of soap, gather ... Read More
Rating:  - Nostalgia
These poems seem tense, circumscribed, hemmed in. Although not strictly speaking "nostalgic" they come too close. There is a cramped, careful almost fussy feeling to the writing. Why write poetry to this effect?
Rating: - lovely and piercing
This is a wonderfully lucid and evocative first book, with crystalline imagery, full-bodied pathos and sensuality. Ripe, earthy, plain-spoken beauty confirms this new poet's gifts, for lyric precision and emotional honesty, on every page.
Rating:  - Seems Beside the Point to Offer 1-Star, But...
This book annoyed me. It seems to be trying to do what Rita Dove's excellent earlier Thomas and Beulla did wonderfully. I suppose I should have figured I wouldn't like the book since it was recommended to me along with Louise Gluck's new book and something called Some Ether by Nick Flyn, both books pretty weak and vapid and self-obsessed. I can't recommend the book, even with Ms. Dove's excellent and inspiring introduction. I will check out the next however.
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