Domestic Work

Mississippi native Natasha Trethewey, author of Bellocq's Ophelia and Domestic Work, has been awarded the Grolier Poetry Prize and a Pushcart Prize. Her work was also included in The Best American Poetry 2000. Trethewey now lives in Decatur, Georgia, and is Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Emory University.

Winner of the 1999 Cave Canem Poetry Prize
Winner of the 2001 Lillian Smith Book Award
Winner of the 2001 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award

In this widely celebrated debut collection of poems, Natasha Trethewey draws moving domestic portraits of families, past and present, caught in the act of earning a living and managing their households. Small moments taken from a labor-filled day and rendered here in graceful and readable verse reveal the equally hard emotional work of memory and forgetting, the extraordinary difficulty of trying to live with or without someone.

Natasha Trethewey is a former US poet laureate and the author of five collections of poetry, as well as a book of creative nonfiction. She is currently the Board of Trustees Professor of English at Northwestern University. In 2007 she won the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for her collection Native Guard.

• Paperback: 70 pages
• Publisher: Graywolf Press (August 1, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1555973094
• ISBN-13: 9781555973094
• Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.2 x 9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces