A review by nick_jenkins
Thrall: Poems by Natasha Trethewey

3.0

Unlike Native Guard, the poems about Trethewey's father are by far superior to her historical reflections. Most of these historical poems are close readings of seventeenth or eighteenth century paintings, which gives these poems a static, rather flat quality, the very opposite of her superbly dynamic poems in Native Guard. "Enlightenment" is a standout, as is "Bird in the House." "Torna Atras" is much better than the other historicals.