Word: tretheweyã
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...poet has recently published her first book, Domestic Work and Interior With Sudden Joy, respectively. Trethewey read first. Her poems dealt, from many points of view, with a woman in a photograph projected on a screen for the audience. The woman was a prostitute, photographed in Storyville in 1912. Trethewey??€™s poems reconstructed a life around this woman, superimposing emotions and experience onto the subject images. Her reading style was conventional. Clearly enunciating every syllable and every break between syllables, she used a steady tone that demanded the listener’s concentration, and the audience seemed willing...
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