Domestic Work: Poems

Trethewey, Natasha; Rita Dove [Introduction]

ISBN 10: 1555973094 / ISBN 13: 9781555973094

Published by Graywolf Press, Saint Paul, 2000

About this Item

Fourth printing of the first edition, a paperback original, with no hardcover equivalent. Signed by Natasha Trethewey directly on the title page, additionally inscribed to Aralia Press publisher, Michael Peich: "For Mike-- / in honor of all / the work that we do. / Natasha." Book in fine, as new condition. Winner of the 1999 Cave Canem Poetry Prize. Pulitzer Prize winner Natasha Trethewey served two terms as the 19th Poet Laureate of the United States (2012-2014). In her second term as United States Poet Laureate, Trethewey?s signature project was a PBS NewsHour Poetry Series, Where Poetry Lives. Seller Inventory # 023198

Bibliographic Details

Title: Domestic Work: Poems

Publisher: Graywolf Press, Saint Paul

Publication Date: 2000

Binding: Soft cover

Illustrator: Jeff Etheridge (Author photo); Jeanne Lee (Cover design); Romare Bearden

Condition: Fine

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: 1st Edition

About this title

Synopsis:

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 labour-filled day reveal the equally hard emotional work of memory and forgetting, and the extraordinary difficulty of trying to live with or without someone.

Synopsis:

A haunting poetry collection depicts extraordinary moments of domestic portraits in labour-filled days - "From sonnets and traditional ballads to free verses shot through with the syncopated attitude of blues, the poems in Domestic Work sing with a muscular luminosity. Here is a young poet in full possession of her craft, ready to testify. To which I say: Can we get an "Amen?" And: Let those voices be heard." - poet and critic, Rita Dove - Still, photographic poems eloquently illuminate intensity of simple motion, and of people trying to keep it all together, both personally and collectively