Beyond Katrina: A Meditation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast -- Natasha Trethewey

<p>"Beyond Katrina" is poet Natasha Trethewey's very personal profile of her natal Mississippi Gulf Coast and of the people there whose lives were forever changed by Hurricane Katrina in 2005.</p><p>Trethewey's attempt to understand and document the damage to Gulfport started as a series of lectures at the University of Virginia that were subsequently published as essays in the "Virginia Quarterly Review." For "Beyond Katrina," Trethewey expanded this work into a narrative that incorporates personal letters, poems, and photographs, offering a moving meditation on the love she holds for her childhood home. In this new edition, Trethewey looks back on the ten years that have passed since Katrina in a new epilogue, outlining progress that has been made and the challenges that still exist.</p><p>A Sarah Mills Hodge Fund Publication.</p><br><br><b>Author:</b> Natasha Trethewey<br><b>Publisher:</b> University of Georgia Press<br><b>Published:</b> 08/01/2015<br><b>Pages:</b> 144<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Paperback<br><b>Weight:</b> 0.40lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.50d<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9780820349022<br><p><b>About the Author</b><br>NATASHA TRETHEWEY was the Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, 2012-14. She is the author of four collections of poetry: <i>Thrall</i>, <i>Domestic Work</i>, <i>Bellocq's Ophelia</i>, and <i>Native Guard</i>, for which she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. She is the Robert W. Woodruff Professor of English and Creative Writin