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sherbertwells's review
challenging
dark
reflective
sad
fast-paced
3.0
Poems inspired by the obscure depiction of mixed-raced people in art history and the even-more-ambiguous figure of Trethewey’s whte father. Not as animated as Native Guard, but cool and clever like a shellac eye.
“If I tell you such [taxonomic] terms were born in the Enlightenment’s hallowed rooms, that the wages of empire is myopia, you might see the father’s vision as desire embodied in paint, this rendering of his wife born of need to see himself as architect of Truth, benevolent patriarch, father of uplift ordering his domain. And you might see why, to understand my father, I look again and again at this painting: how it is that a man could love—and so diminish what he loves” (“Torna Atrás,” 49)
Content Warnings
Graphic: Colonisation
Moderate: Medical content, Racism, Racial slurs, and Medical trauma
Minor: Rape, Adult/minor relationship, and Slavery
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