Description: Poet Natasha Trethewey's personal profile of her natal Mississippi Gulf Coast and of the people there whose lives were forever changed by Hurricane Katrina. In this new edition, Trethewey looks back on the ten years that have passed since Katrina in a new epilogue, outlining the progress made and the challenges that still exist.
Brief description: 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: Thrall, Domestic Work, Bellocq's Ophelia, and Native Guard, for which she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. She is the Robert W. Woodruff Professor of English and Creative Writing at Emory University.
Review Quotes:
Beyond Katrina examines both the public and personal impact of the tragedy from the perspective of a writer uniquely qualified to undertake such a fraught and challenging project. She brings to the volume an insider's knowledge and deep-felt affection for the place and its culture, but also an expatriate's sense of wary detachment. On a grander scale, the book is permeated with the sense that memory and the past can only exist as ruin. This book offers continuing evidence that Natasha Trethewey is one of our most indispensable poets, and tell us as well that she is a prose writer of the first order.
--David Wojahn "author of Interrogation Palace: New and Selected Poems 1982-2004"