Librarian of Congress, Dr. James H. Billington, named Natasha Trethewey as the Library of Congress' 2012-2013 Poet Laureate Consultant. Trethewey has amassed numerous awards. She is currently serving as the Poet Laureate of her native Mississippi and earned a Pulitzer Prize in Poetry in 2007.

Based on photographs of African-Americans at work in the pre-civil rights era 20th-century America, Trethewey's first collection functions as near-social documentary. She takes up the difficult task of preserving, and sometimes speculating upon, the people and conditions of the mostly Southern, mostly black working class.

Author: Natashia Trethewey

Publisher: Graywolf Press

Description: Paperback, 64 pages

Publication date: September 2000

Price: $14.00

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Product #: 21108238