The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Natasha Trethewey
Natasha Trethewey discusses her new collection, MONUMENT: POEMS NEW AND SELECTED.
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...more[Still photos] grab what otherwise might feel too foreign to understand.
...moreTo be forced to speak in the language of the colonist, the language of the oppressor, while also carrying within us the storm of Jamaican patois, we live under a constant hurricane of our doubleness.
...moreThere is one story that my mother used to tell me often, which has become in some ways a symbol of my childhood.
...more(Dan Weiss is out on tour with his band The Yellow Dress. He’ll be back on August 3rd.) So, #AskELJames got a little out of control, huh? But was it justified push back? Or was it just online harassment? Own a piece of literary history. I wonder if they’d take .004% down? Princesses powered by flatulence. Learning your […]
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