Description: Smith, Natasha Tretheway, Charles Wright, and Kevin Young--this collection offers an aesthetically and culturally diverse range of perspectives on a man whose paradoxes still abide at the heart of the American experiment.
Review Quotes:
The remarkably varied perspectives of these poets give life to Monticello and to Jefferson, capturing him not only in his own complicated time but also considering what he means for all time.
--Susan R. Stein, Richard Gilder Senior Curator and Vice President for Museum Programs, Thomas Jefferson Foundation at Monticello