Beyond Katrina: A Meditation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast (A Sarah Mills Hodge Fund Publication) by Natasha Trethewey

Natasha Trethewey . Unknown Year . English

Beyond Katrina is poet Natasha Trethewey’s very personal profile of her natal Mississippi Gulf Coast and of the people there whose lives were forever changed by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Trethewey’s attempt to understand and document the damage to Gulfport started as a series of lectures at the University of Virginia that were subsequently published as essays in theVirginia Quarterly Review. For Beyond Katrina, Trethewey expanded this work into a narrative that incorporates personal letters, poems, and photographs, offering a moving meditation on the love she holds for her childhood home. In this new edition, Trethewey looks back on the ten years that have passed since Katrina in a new epilogue, outlining progress that has been made and the challenges that still exist. A Sarah Mills Hodge Fund Publication.

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About the Author

Natasha Trethewey served two terms as the 19th Poet Laureate of the United States. She is the author of five collections of poetry, including Native Guard—for which she was awarded the 2007 Pulitzer Prize—and, most recently, Monument: Poems New and Selected. She’s also the author of a book of non-fiction, Beyond Katrina; a memoir, Memorial Drive, which was an instant New York Times Bestseller; and The House of Being, a meditation on writing.

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