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Beyond Katrina
A Meditation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast (Sarh Mills Hodge Fund Publications)
by Natasha Trethewey
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(Reprint)
by Natasha Trethewey
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 ..."

Thrall
Poems
by Natasha Trethewey
Published 2012
ISBN-13: 978-1-299-89566-9, ISBN: 1-299-89566-2

Thrall
Poems
by Natasha Trethewey
96 Pages, Published 2012 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN-13: 978-0-547-84042-0, ISBN: 0-547-84042-X

"She is echo of Jesus at table, framed in the scene behind her: his white corona, her white cap. Listening, she leans into what she knows. Light falls on half her face. Knowledge After a chalk drawing by J. H. Hasselhorst, 1864 27 Kitchen Maid ..."

Native Guard
(Enhanced Audio Edition): Poems
by Natasha Trethewey
Digital, Published 2012 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (Hmh)
ISBN-13: 978-1-299-88636-0, ISBN: 1-299-88636-1

Beyond Katrina
by Natasha Trethewey
Published 2010
ISBN-13: 978-1-282-79579-2, ISBN: 1-282-79579-1

Black Nature
Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry
by Camille T. Dungy, Elizabeth Alexander, Alvin Aubert, Gerald Barrax, Remica Bingham, Cyrus Cassells, Lucille Clifton, Wanda Coleman, Toi Derricotte, Rita Dove, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Cornelius Eady, Thomas Sayers Ellis, Joanne Gabbin, Nikki Giovanni, Kendra Hamilton, Terrance Hayes, Sean Hill, Langston Hughes, Major Jackson, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, Douglas Kearney, Yusef Komunyakaa, Clarence Major, Mark Mcmorris, E. Miller, Kamilah Aisha Moon, Indigo Moor, Lenard Moore, Thylias Moss, Harryette Mullen, Gregory Pardlo, Cynthia Parker-Ohene, Carl Phillips, Stephanie Pruitt, Claudia Rankine, Tim Seibles, Evie Shockley, Patricia Smith, Jean Toomer, Natasha Trethewey, Alice Walker, Sterling A. Brown, Margaret Walker, Afaa Weaver, Al Young, Kwame Alexander, Tara Betts, Arna Bontemps, Shane Book, Gwendolyn Brooks, Melvin Dixon, James A. Emanuel, Jessie Redmon Fauset, Ross Gay, C. S. Giscombe, Rachel Eliza Griffiths, Myronn Hardy, Michael S. Harper, Janice N. Harrington, Robert Hayden, George Moses Horton, Ravi Howard, Amaud Jamaul Johnson, Helene Johnson, James Weldon Johnson, Patricia Spears Jones, June Jordan, Ruth Ellen Kocher, Audre Lorde, Devorah Major, Shara Mccallum, George Marion Mcclellan, Claude Mckay, Marilyn Nelson, G. E. Patterson, Ishmael Reed, Ed Roberson, Mona Lisa Saloy, Reginald Shepherd, Anne Spencer, Amber Flora Thomas, Melvin B. Tolson, Askia M. Touré, Wendy S. Walters, Anthony Walton, Phillis Wheatley, Albery Whitman, Sherley Anne Williams, Richard Wright, Toni Wynn, Frank X. Walker
Paperback, 432 Pages, Published 2009 by University Of Georgia Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-3431-8, ISBN: 0-8203-3431-6

"Black Nature is the first anthology to focus on nature writing by African American poets, a genre that until now has not commonly been counted as one in which African American poets have participated.Black poets have a long tradition of incorporating treatments of the natural world into their work, but it is often read as political, historical, or protest poetry―anything but nature poetry. This is particularly true when the definition o ..."

Black Nature(Updated)
Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry
by Camille T. Dungy, Toni Wynn, Alvin Aubert, Gerald Barrax, Remica Bingham, Cyrus Cassells, Lucille Clifton, Wanda Coleman, Elizabeth Alexander, Toi Derricotte, Rita Dove, Cornelius Eady, Kendra Hamilton, Terrance Hayes, Sean Hill, Langston Hughes, Major Jackson, Douglas Kearney, Clarence, Nikki Giovanni, Yusef Komunyakaa, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Thomas Sayers Ellis, Mark Mcmorris, E. Miller, Kamilah Aisha Moon, Indigo Moor, Lenard Moore, Thylias Moss, Harryette Mullen, Gregory Pardlo, Cynthia Parker-Ohene, Carl Phillips, Stephanie Pruitt, Claudia Rankine, Tim Seibles, Evie Shockley, Jean Toomer, Natasha Trethewey, Alice Walker, Frank X. Walker, Margaret Walker, Afaa Weaver, Al Young, Kwame Alexander, Tara Betts, Shane Book, Gwendolyn Brooks, Sterling A. Brown, Melvin Dixon, James A. Emanuel, Jessie Redmon Fauset, Ross Gay, C. S. Giscombe, Rachel Eliza Griffiths, Myronn Hardy, Michael S. Harper, Janice N. Harrington, Robert Hayden, George Moses Horton, Ravi Howard, Amaud Jamaul Johnson, Helene Johnson, James Weldon Johnson, Patricia Spears Jones, Professor Audre Lorde, Ruth Ellen Kocher, Devorah Major, Shara Mccallum, George Marion Mcclellan, Claude Mckay, Marilyn Nelson, G. E. Patterson, Ishmael Reed, Ed Roberson, Mona Lisa Saloy, Reginald Shepherd, Anne Spencer, Amber Flora Thomas, Wendy S. Walters, Anthony Walton, Phillis Wheatley, Albery Whitman, Sherley Anne Williams, Richard Wright, Professor Joanne Gabbin, Professor June Jordan, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, Patricia Smith, Arna Bontemps, Melvin B. Tolson, Askia M. Touré, Joanne Gabbin
Hardcover, 432 Pages, Published 2009 by University Of Georgia Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-3277-2, ISBN: 0-8203-3277-1

"This book presents the natural world seen through the eyes of black poets. ""Black Nature"" is the first anthology to focus on nature writing by African American poets, a genre that until now has not commonly been counted as one in which African American poets have participated. Black poets have a long tradition of incorporating treatments of the natural world into their work, but it is often read as political, historical, or protest po ..."

Java Monkey Speaks
A Poetry Anthology Volume 3
by Kodac Harrison, Collin Kelley, Natasha Trethewey, Patricia Smith, Thomas Lux, Karen Head, Cecilia Woloch
Paperback, 72 Pages, Published 2008 by Poetry Atlanta Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-60643-819-0, ISBN: 1-60643-819-0

"Poetry Atlanta Press presents Java Monkey Speaks: A Poetry Anthology Vol. 3 featuring work by poets who have featured a the Java Monkey Speaks reading series in Decatur, Georgia. Included in this volume are award-winning poets Thomas Lux, Patricia Smith, Cecilia Woloch, Karen Head, Rupert Fike, Chelsea Rathburn, Megan Volpert, Sarah Maclay, Jackie Sheeler and many more."

Native Guard
by Natasha Trethewey
Digital, 64 Pages, Published 2012 by Mariner Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-547-52626-3, ISBN: 0-547-52626-1

"The first regiments of the Louisiana Native Guards were mustered into servicein September, October, and November of 1862—the 1st Regiment thus becoming the first officially sanctioned regiment ofblack soldiersin the Union Army, and the 2nd and 3rd made up ofmen who had been slaves only months before enlisting. During the war, the fort at Ship Island, Mississippi, called Fort Massachusetts, was maintained as a prisonfor Confederate ..."

Thrall(1st Edition)
Poems
by Natasha D. Trethewey
Hardcover, 96 Pages, Published 2012 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN-13: 978-0-547-57160-7, ISBN: 0-547-57160-7

"By unflinchingly charting the intersections of public and personal history, Thrall explores the historical, cultural, and social forces--across time and space--that determine the roles consigned to a mixed-race daughter and her white father. In a vivid series of poems about interracial marriage depicted in the Casta Paintings of Colonial Mexico, Trethewey investigates the philosophical assumptions that underpin Enlightenment notions of ..."

Beyond Katrina(1st Edition)
A Meditation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast (Sarah Mills Hodge Fund Publication)
by Natasha D. Trethewey
Hardcover, 144 Pages, Published 2010 by University Of Georgia Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-3381-6, ISBN: 0-8203-3381-6