Tenement Threnody

“…this is a book of laments but it is also a wonderful, unique book of great celebration. The poems and their speakers are so alive, so human, and their voices are captured perfectly in sonnet-sized forms. These are portraits and voices from a gone world. Sometimes, to go forward, we must go back. This is a terrific book.” (Thomas Lux, renowned American poet - he currently holds the Margaret T. and Henry C. Bourne, Jr. Chair in Poetry at the Georgia Institute of Technology) Another reader: “Meredith Trede's new book took me deep into a world I'd never known. And left me wanting more.