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Natasha Tretheway
On April 2nd at 8 pm, reigning Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, Natasha Trethewey, will give a public reading at Hendrix Theater. It's a big venue, so I am asking for your help in filling up the place. Trethewey's story is remarkable. Born in Mississippi to a black mother and white father, the themes of personal identity, miscegenation, and racial turmoil run throughNative Guard, her Pulitzer-Prize-winning volume. But there is more to be found there, as the book is also about her mother's subsequent death at the hands of a black stepfather, as well as about the Native Guard,Louisiana's celebrated regiment of black men during the Civil War.These intertwined stories are presented in poems that are largely written in formal modes;as the Washington Post notes,"Trethewey has a gift for squeezing the contradictions of the South into very tightly controlled lines." Her first volume, Domestic Work,was selected by another of our only three black, woman Pulitzer Prize-winning poets, Rita Dove, for the prestigious Cave Canem Poetry Prize, and her second volume, Bellocq's Ophelia is a stunning collection of epistalatory poems in the voice of an octoroon prostitute in the early 1900s, using as its fulcrum E.J. Bellocq's photographs of the New Orleans red-light district. I'm attaching links to information that may be of use to you.Thanks in advance for helping to make this a great ECU event!
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