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Book Title

Domestic Work

Subtitle
Poems
Author 1
Natasha Trethewey
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Domestic Work
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"With poems based on photographs of African-Americans at work in the pre-civil rights era 20th-century America, Trethewey's fine first collection functions as near-social documentary. . . The sonnets, triplets and flush-left free verse she employs give the work an understated distance, and Trethewey's relatively spare language allows the characters, from factory and dock workers to homemakers, to take on fluid, present-tense movement."—Publishers Weekly

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ISBN
ISBN
978-1-55597-309-4
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Paperback
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Pages
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70
Trim Size
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6 x 9
Keynote
The historic debut by Natasha Trethewey, winner of the Cave Canem Poetry Prize, selected and introduced by Rita Dove

About the Author

Natasha Trethewey
Credit: Jeff Etheridge
Natasha Trethewey is the author of four poetry collections: Domestic Work, winner of the Cave Canem Poetry Prize; Bellocq’s Ophelia, an American Library Association Notable Book; Native Guard, winner of the Pulitzer Prize; and Thrall. She is also the author of a work of nonfiction, Beyond Katrina: A Meditation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. The Library of Congress named her the United States Poet Laureate in 2012. She teaches at Emory University.
 
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Acknowledgements

This book is made possible, in part, through the Cave Canem Poetry Prize, a first-book award dedicated to the discovery of exceptional manuscripts by African American poets, and by the generosity of Graywolf Press donors like you.
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