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3 nov 2018 · Natasha Trethewey — former Poet Laureate of the United States — has a new collection of poems out about American history, personal history, and the lives of people who are often overlooked by ...
Natasha D. Trethewey. Pulitzer Prize-winner Natasha Trethewey served two terms as the 19th Poet Laureate of the United States (2012-2014). In her second term as United States Poet Laureate, Trethewey’s signature project was a PBS NewsHour Poetry Series, “Where Poetry Lives.”. Trethewey is the author of Monument (2018), which was ...
Trethewey’s acute understanding of how ‘the past holds us captive’ leads to insightful and often moving interactions between public and private histories . . . Thrall conveys a wise and revelatory urgency appropriate to one of the vital social concerns of our time.”—Library Journal. “In poems that again exhibit her gift for finding ...
1 ago 2020 · Natasha Trethewey / Katie Martin / The Atlantic. August 1, 2020. In her foundational 1977 essay, “Poetry Is Not a Luxury,” the Black feminist writer Audre Lorde argued that the art form ...
20 gen 2009 · Natasha Trethewey won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for poetry for her book Native Guard. Her parents had an interracial marriage while it was still illegal in Mississippi, and Tretheway's poetry often ...
Natasha Trethewey: On the one hand, I think my story is the quintessential American story; this miscegenation is America, this history across the color line intersected is America. It is a truly American story that we have been waiting for someone to tell. A Civil War history is bringing to light those stories that get subsumed and erased.
9 giu 2019 · By Natasha Trethewey (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 208pp., $26.00) In the old story, a king summons an artist to his court and commissions a painting of his favorite bird, the rooster. The artist requests a year in which to complete the work. At the end of the allotted year, the king visits the artist’s home and asks for the painting.
