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- And whenever that was written about, my mother was mentioned almost as a footnote or an afterthought as this murdered woman, this victim. And I felt that it diminished her importance in my life and in making me a poet. And so I decided that if she was going to be mentioned again and again, then - that I was going to be the one to tell her story.
www.npr.org › 2020/07/26 › 895480898Trethewey's 'Memorial Drive' Tells The Story Of Her Mother's ...
Aug 12, 2020 · The poet Natasha Trethewey discusses her decision to tell her mother’s story in prose, in “Memorial Drive,” and her feelings about the destruction of Confederate monuments.
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Jul 29, 2020 · The man told Trethewey about a file of evidence, at the courthouse, containing her mother’s last words written on a yellow legal pad.
Nancy Crampton/Broadside. Thirty-five years ago, Natasha Trethewey 's stepfather shot and killed her mother outside of her home in a suburb of Atlanta. Trethewey's stepfather was sentenced to...
Sep 1, 2020 · In her new book, the Pulitzer winner explains how her life’s two wounds—racism in her native South and her mother’s murder—literally intersect on Memorial Drive. By Suzanne Van Atten
To tell her mother’s story — and her own as her mother’s child — she had to reclaim the totems and memories and documentary evidence of the years between 1973 and 1985, when Joel...
Jul 26, 2020 · Natasha Trethewey is a two-time U.S. Poet Laureate and a Pulitzer Prize winner. Now she's written a memoir about her mother. She talks to NPR's Sarah McCammon about Memorial Drive.
Jul 27, 2020 · Pulitzer Prize winning poet Natasha Trethewey explores the relationship between trauma, agency, and voice as she excavates the lingering effects of her mother's murder upon her life.
