Natasha Trethewey
American poet who won the Pulitzer Prize for Native Guard in 2007 and served as Poet Laureate. Her verse explores Southern history, race, and personal loss.
Works
- Domestic WorkPoetry portraying lives of Black domestic workers in early twentieth-century America
- Bellocq's OpheliaPoetry retelling Hamlet's Ophelia through persona of a New Orleans prostitute in Bellocq's photographs
- Native GuardPoetry exploring family history and Civil War legacy in Mississippi Gulf Coast landscape
- ThrallPoetry examining slavery, violence, and captivity through mixed historical and personal narratives
- MonumentPoetry meditating on public monuments and their contested meanings in American history