Beyond Katrina
A Meditation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast
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2015
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2nd Revised edition
University of Georgia Press (Verlag)
978-0-8203-4902-2 (ISBN)
University of Georgia Press (Verlag)
978-0-8203-4902-2 (ISBN)
Offers a very personal profile of Natasha Trethewey’s natal Mississippi Gulf Coast and of the people there whose lives were forever changed by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. In Beyond Katrina, Trethewey provides a narrative that incorporates personal letters, poems, and photographs, offering a moving meditation on the love she holds for her childhood home.
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 Gulfportstarted as a series of lectures at the University of Virginia that were subsequently published as essays in the Virginia 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.
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 Gulfportstarted as a series of lectures at the University of Virginia that were subsequently published as essays in the Virginia 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.
Natasha Trethewey was the Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, 2012–14. She is the author of four collections of poetry: Thrall, Domestic Work, Bellocq’s Ophelia, and Native Guard, for which she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. She is the Robert W. Woodruff Professor of English and Creative Writing at Emory University.
| Reihe/Serie | A Sarah Mills Hodge Fund Publication |
|---|---|
| Vorwort | Natasha Trethewey |
| Zusatzinfo | 12 black & white photographs |
| Verlagsort | Georgia |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 140 x 216 mm |
| Gewicht | 220 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Nord- / Mittelamerika | |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte | |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-8203-4902-X / 082034902X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-8203-4902-2 / 9780820349022 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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