Natasha Trethewey
Natasha Trethewey is an American poet and author who served as the 19th United States Poet Laureate from 2012 to 2014. She is known for her work exploring themes of race, history, and personal experience. Her collection 'Native Guard' won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Trethewey's writing often reflects on her own biracial background and the complexities of identity and memory in the American South.
Books
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1. Native Guard
This Pulitzer Prize-winning poetry collection serves as a profound meditation on memory and the racial legacy of the American South. Through a blend of personal history and national narrative, the poems weave together the story of a mother's death, the poet's childhood in Mississippi, and the forgotten history of the Louisiana Native Guards, a black regiment assigned to guard Confederate prisoners of war. The work explores themes of loss, the intersection of personal and collective past, and the complex nature of remembrance, ultimately questioning what it means to be a native guardian to history's darker truths.
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