Reviews

Monument: Poems New and Selected by Natasha Trethewey

smc15's review against another edition

reflective slow-paced

5.0

amywoolsey_93's review against another edition

challenging reflective slow-paced

5.0

vince_reads's review

challenging dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

4.5

 Trethewey brilliantly shares the anguish of reemergence from generational racism, loss, and violence. The collection isn’t all like this, but the poems I will remember most, like “Pilgrimage”, will be carried, not kept.

If wanting a sample of Trethewey's work, find: "Enlightenment", "Illumination", and "What the Body Can Say". 

literadreams's review

emotional reflective slow-paced

5.0

mjessie's review

5.0

Every poem is solid.

karibaumann's review

5.0

This is a beautiful and carefully crafted collection that is so recognizably American in its voice, its themes of race, the South, family, and history. "Searing" was the word that kept coming to mind.

losethegirl's review

dark emotional reflective

4.0

nhayner's review

5.0

Amazing.

emzireads's review

emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Racism, and Gun violence

swamp_witch's review

dark emotional hopeful reflective

5.0