Thrall(Reprint) Poems by NatashaTrethewey Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 2015 by Mariner Books ISBN-13: 978-0-544-58620-8, ISBN: 0-544-58620-4
"19th Poet Laureate of the United States “A powerful, beautifully crafted book.”—The Washington Post “Ripe with the perfidies and paradoxes of thralldom both personal and public, it is utterly elegant.”—Elle Charting the intersections of public and personal history, Thrall explores the historical, cultural, and social forces that determine the roles to which a mixed-race daughter and her white father are consigned. In a brilliant ..."
Memorial Drive A Daughter's Memoir (Paperback) by NatashaTrethewey Paperback, Published 2021 by Ecco Press, United States ISBN-13: 978-0-06-224858-9, ISBN: 0-06-224858-8
Monument Poems New and Selected (Paperback or Softback) by NatashaTrethewey Published 2019 by Mariner Books ISBN-13: 978-0-358-11823-7, ISBN: 0-358-11823-9
Memorial Drive A Daughter's Memoir by NatashaTrethewey Hardcover, 224 Pages, Published 2020 by Ecco ISBN-13: 978-0-06-224857-2, ISBN: 0-06-224857-X
"A chillingly personal and exquisitely wrought memoir of a daughter reckoning with the brutal murder of her mother at the hands of her former stepfather, and the moving, intimate story of a poet coming into her own in the wake of a tragedyAt age nineteen, Natasha Trethewey had her world turned upside down when her former stepfather shot and killed her mother. Grieving and still new to adulthood, she confronted the twin pulls of life and ..."
Beyond Katrina A Meditation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast (Sarh Mills Hodge Fund Publications) by NatashaTrethewey Paperback, 144 Pages, Published 2012 by University Of Georgia Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-4311-2, ISBN: 0-8203-4311-0
""Beyond Katrina" is poet Natasha Trethewey's very personal profile of the Mississippi Gulf Coast and of the people there whose lives were forever changed by hurricane Katrina.Trethewey spent her childhood in Gulfport, where much of her mother's extended family, including her younger brother, still lives. As she worked to understand the devastation that followed the hurricane, Trethewey found inspiration in Robert Penn Warren's book "Seg ..."
Native Guard(1st Edition) Poems by NatashaTrethewey Hardcover, 51 Pages, Published 2006 by Houghton Mifflin Company ISBN-13: 978-0-618-60463-0, ISBN: 0-618-60463-4
"Growing up in the Deep South, Natasha Trethewey was never told that in her hometown of Gulfport, Mississippi, black soldiers had played a pivotal role in the Civil War. Off the coast, on Ship Island, stood a fort that had once been a Union prison housing Confederate captives. Protecting the fort was the second regiment of the Louisiana Native Guards -- one of the Union's first official black units. Trethewey's new book of poems pays hom ..."
"Eudora Welty’s Photographs, originally published in 1989, serves as the definitive book of the critically acclaimed writer’s photographs. Her camera’s viewfinder captured deep compassion and her artist’s sensibilities. Photographs is a deeply felt documentation of 1930s Mississippi taken by a keenly observant photographer who showed the human side of her subjects. Also included in the book are pictures from Welty’s travels to New York, ..."
"Edited by Pulitzer Prize-winner and nineteenth US Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey, The Best American Poetry 2017 brings together the most notable poems of the year in the series that offers "a vivid snapshot of what a distinguished poet finds exciting, fresh, and memorable" (Robert Pinsky). Librarian of Congress James Billington says Natasha Trethewey "consistently and dramatically expanded the power" of the role of US Poet Laureate, ho ..."
Memorial Drive A Daughter's Memoir (Paperback) by NatashaTrethewey Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2020 by Bloomsbury Uk Aug 2020 ISBN-13: 978-1-4088-4002-3, ISBN: 1-4088-4002-2
"Natasha Trethewey was born in Mississippi in the 60s to a black mother and a white father. When she was six, Natasha's parents divorced, and she and her mother moved to Atlanta."
"Edited by Pulitzer Prize-winner and nineteenth US Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey, The Best American Poetry 2017 brings together the most notable poems of the year in the series that offers "a vivid snapshot of what a distinguished poet finds exciting, fresh, and memorable" (Robert Pinsky). Librarian of Congress James Billington says Natasha Trethewey "consistently and dramatically expanded the power" of the role of US Poet Laureate, ho ..."
Native Guard(Reprint) by NatashaTrethewey Library, 51 Pages, Published 2009 ISBN-13: 978-1-4395-5887-4, ISBN: 1-4395-5887-6
"Through elegiac verse that honors her mother and tells of her own fraught childhood, Natasha Trethewey confronts the racial legacy of her native Deep South -- where one of the first black regiments, the Louisiana Native Guards, was called ..."
Best New Poets 2007(1st Edition) 50 Poems from Emerging Writers by NatashaTrethewey, Jeb Livingood Paperback, 144 Pages, Published 2007 by University Of Virginia Press ISBN-13: 978-0-9766296-2-7, ISBN: 0-9766296-2-3
"Praise for earlier editions:"Unlike novelists and bad-boy memoirists, emerging poets are unlikely to sprawl on Oprah's couch, date starlets, or rouse bidding wars. With an alert ear for new voices, this anthology offers a different kind of validation: that of being well heard. The result is a vibrant smorgasbord.... [ Best New Poets] bears evidence of the in ..."
"In 1941, Jacob Lawrence, then just twenty-three years old, completed a series of sixty small tempera paintings with text captions about the Great Migration. Within months of its making, Lawrences Migration series was divided between The Museum of Modern Art (even numbered panels) and the Phillips Memorial Gallery (odd numbered panels). The work has since become a landmark in the history of African-American art, a monument in the collect ..."
Memorial Drive A Daughter's Memoir by NatashaTrethewey 224 Pages, Published 2020 by Harpercollins ISBN-13: 978-0-06-224859-6, ISBN: 0-06-224859-6
"Animated by unforgettable prose and inflected by a poet’s attention to language, this is a luminous, urgent, and visceral memoir from one of our most important contemporary writers and thinkers."
Monument Poems New and Selected by NatashaTrethewey 224 Pages, Published 2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ISBN-13: 978-1-328-50869-0, ISBN: 1-328-50869-2
"This is a poet’s remarkable labor to source evidence, persistence, and strength from the past in order to change the very foundation of the vocabulary we use to speak about race, gender, and our collective future. *Academy of American ..."
"Lawrence's landmark series on African American migration in contextIn 1941, Jacob Lawrence, then just 23 years old, made a series of 60 small tempera paintings on the Great Migration, the decades-long mass movement of black Americans from the rural South to the urban North that began in 1915–16. The child of migrant parents, Lawrence worked partly from his own experience and partly from long research in his neighborhood library. The res ..."
"DAVID. BRENDAN. HOPES. Certain. Things. For the sake of my father, certain
things must be done in a certain way: tightening of bolts, of nuts around threads;
coiling of hoses; firm, instant replacement of lids; spreading of seed from the
hand held just so, in furrows dug to the joint or the knuckle, depending; wash it
when you use it, never put it up wet; don't be opening and closing the screen
door as if you were a cat. Begrateful ..."
Thrall Poems by NatashaTrethewey Published 2012 ISBN-13: 978-1-299-89566-9, ISBN: 1-299-89566-2