Mississippi native Natasha
Trethewey, author of "Bellocq's Ophelia" and "Domestic Work," has been
awarded the Grolier Poetry Prize and a Pushcart Prize. Her work was also
included in "The Best American Poetry 2000." Trethewey now lives in
Decatur, Georgia, and is Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at
Emory University.
Winner of the 1999 Cave Canem Poetry Prize
Winner of the 2001 Lillian Smith Book Award
Winner of the 2001 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award
In this widely celebrated debut collection of poems, 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--and rendered here in
graceful and readable verse--reveal the equally hard emotional work of
memory and forgetting, the extraordinary difficulty of trying to live
with or without someone.
