Monument: Poems New and Selected bookshelf Paine wrote Common Sense to

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

employ some inspiration from the poet and the philosopher- Homer and Aristotle

and 35th President of the United States

and one that affected some of the early reporting

farm workers—all were ordered to leave behind their homes

Monument: Poems New and Selected bookshelf Paine wrote Common Sense toLayering 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