Monument: Poems New and Selected bookshelf and 35th President of the

and 35th President of the United States

A delicate charm of a bird in-flight embodies Maya Angelou’s I Know What the Caged Bird Sings

First he is shipwrecked in a strange land

Paine wrote Common Sense to encourage the colonies to break the British exploitative hold and fight for independence

farm workers—all were ordered to leave behind their homes

Monument: Poems New and Selected bookshelf and 35th President of theLayering joy and urgent defianceagainst physical and cultural erasure, against white supremacy whether intangible or graven in stoneTretheweys work gives pedestal and witness to unsung icons. Monument, Tretheweys first retrospective, draws together verse that delineates the stories of working class African American women, a mixed race prostitute, one of the first black Civil War regiments, mestizo and mulatto figures in Casta paintings, Gulf coast