Ed. note: This is a cross-post from the blog of the Library of Congress. It originally appeared in the Library’s staff newsletter, the Gazette.
The writing of Natasha Trethewey explores a past that often is unsettling – growing up biracial in 1960s Mississippi, the lives of forgotten African-American soldiers during the Civil War, the murder of her mother, the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
“When you begin to think about the past, you realize how much of it is lost to us,” says Trethewey, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “Native Guard.”
On Thursday, Librarian of Congress James H. Billington announced the selection of Trethewey as the Library’s 19th poet laureate consultant in poetry.
Source: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2012/06/07/southern-stanza
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