About the Book
Beyond Katrina: a meditation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast by Unlimited access to the ebook is available through Ebrary/Ebook Central.
Book Summary from University of Georgia Press
From Emory University, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Natasha Trethewey performs the poem "Liturgy" from her memoir Beyond Katrina.
Trethewey discusses Beyond Katrina for publisher podcast
About the Author/Poet
Natasha Trethewey is an American poet who was appointed United States Poet Laureate in 2012 and again in 2013. She won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for her 2006 collection Native Guard, and she is a former Poet Laureate of Mississippi. On October 17, 2012 Trethewey visited the Phillips Exeter Academy campus as part of the Lamont Poetry Program.
- Books by Natasha TrethewayBooks of poetry by Trethewey available in print at the Library.
Conversations with Natasha Trethewey (Ebook) by Publication Date: 2013"The interviews featured within Conversations with Natasha Trethewey provide intriguing artistic and biographical insights into her work."
- How Natasha Trethewey Remembers Her MotherThe New Yorker (online) August 12, 2020. Interview with Trethewey discussion her latest book Memorial Drive.
- A POETICS OF RESILIENCEInterview with Trethewey and excerpt from new memoir, Memorial Drive.
Source: Sanders, Joshunda. "A POETICS OF RESILIENCE." Poets & Writers, Jul 2020: 32-7.
Related Texts, Podcasts, and Images
- Floodlines
The Atlantic’s eight-part podcast, reported by Vann R. Newkirk II, explores the aftermath of the day the levees broke. - Three Poems from 'Blood Dazzler' by Patricia Smith
A National Book Award Finalist, Blood Dazzler is a collection of poems in which "Patricia Smith tracks Hurricane Katrina’s transformation into a full-blown mistress of destruction......Assuming the voices of flailing politicians, the dying, their survivors, and the voice of the hurricane itself, Smith follows the woefully inadequate relief effort and stands witness to the immeasurable losses." - Remembering Katrina: Poems in Response to Hurricane KatrinaFrom the Poetry Society of America.
- "Race and the Storm" by Jelani Cobb"Race and the Storm." The New Yorker Aug 24 2015: 19,n/a. ProQuest. Web. 26 July 2020 .
Also accessible via the web. - Hurricane Katrina Before, After & Now: Gulfport Volume IPhoto montage by The Sun Herald, Jul 31, 2015.
- Hurricane Katrina Before, After & Now: Gulfport Volume IIPhoto montage by The Sun Herald, Aug 28, 2015.
- Hurricane Katrina Before, After & Now: Biloxi Volume IPhoto montage by The Sun Herald, Jul 31, 2015.
- Hurricane Katrina Before, After & Now: Biloxi Volume IIPhoto montage by The Sun Herald, Aug 28, 2015.
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