Wilson, Mindy
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Encyclopedia article about Natasha Trethewey. Natasha Trethewey, an English professor at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, won the Pulitzer Prize in poetry in 2007. Her works forge a rich intersection between the historical and autobiographical. In poems that are polished, controlled, and often based on traditional forms, Trethewey grapples with the dualities and oppositions that define her personal history: black and white, native and outsider, rural and urban, the memorialized and the forgotten. The daughter of a black mother and a white father, Trethewey grew up in a South still segregated by custom, if not by law, and her life astride the color line has inspired her recovery of lost histories, public and private.
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- African American Authors
- African American Poets
- African American Women Authors
- African American Women Poets
- African Americans
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- Authors, American
- Emory University
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- Georgia
- Poets, American
- Trethewey, Natasha D., 1966
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- Women Poets, American
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