A review by alisarae
Thrall: Poems by Natasha Trethewey

The poet, Natasha Trethewey, is the black daughter of a white father. The poems in Thrall are personal reflections on her family dynamics and poetic ruminations on the history of mixed parentage in the Americas. Many poems are about paintings where people of different races are interacting in intimate spaces, particularly the Casta paintings. So read with Google close by. I always enjoy poems about visual art. Art reflecting art reflecting life.

“The wages of empire is myopia”