kitchen maid with supper at Emmaus, or the mulata

 

Natasha Trethewey

 

She is the vessels on the table before her:
the copper pot tipped toward us, the white pitcher
clutched in her hand, the black one edged in red
and upside down. Bent over, she is the mortar
and the pestle at rest in the mortarstill angled
in its posture of use. She is the stack of bowls
and the bulb of garlic beside it, the basket hung
by a nail on the wall...


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Natasha Trethwey, Emily Dickinson: Partners in Crime

 

    In her interview in the LA Review of Books (just out), Trethewey mentions only Derek Walcott and Robert Penn Warren as poets who touch her at moments of...

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