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DBF Endnote: Natasha Trethewey--Memorial Drive: A Daughter’s Memoir

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Sunday, October 4, 2020 - 4:30pm to 5:30pm

Join author Natasha Trethewey and interviewer Rosemary Magee for a discussion of Trethewey’s memoir, Memorial Drive. The memoir grapples with the South’s history through the lens of her life and the life of her mother, who was murdered by Trethewey’s former step-father. Memorial Drive dives deep into a shared human experience of sudden loss and absence, but also into the enduring ripple effects of white racism and domestic abuse in the American South. Join us in wrapping up the online Decatur Book Festival by engaging in this compelling conversation with one of America’s greatest poets. Charis is proud to be the bookseller for this event. Click to register.

About the Author:

Natasha Trethewey is a former US poet laureate and the author of five collections of poetry, as well as a book of creative nonfiction. She is currently the Board of Trustees Professor of English at Northwestern University. In 2007 she won the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for her collection Native Guard.

About the Interviewer:

Rosemary M. Magee serves as Director of Emory’s Manuscript, Archives and Rare Book Library (MARBL) overseeing the collection and development of significant literary and historical materials. Previously, she served as Vice President and Secretary at Emory, where she oversaw university governance processes, and also as Senior Associate Dean of Resources and Planning in Emory College of Arts and Sciences. A leader in Emory’s creative community, Rosemary is chair of Creativity: Art and Innovation, a framing principle of the University’s Strategic Plan, committed to supporting arts performances, scholarship, research, and conversations across campus.

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Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir By Natasha Trethewey Cover Image
$29.99
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ISBN: 9780062248572
Published: Ecco - July 28th, 2020

An Instant New York Times Bestseller 

A New York Times Notable Book 

One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2020


Monument: Poems New and Selected By Natasha Trethewey Cover Image
$16.99
ISBN: 9780358118237
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Published: Ecco - November 5th, 2019

Urgent new poems on race and gender inequality, and select poems drawing upon Domestic Work, Bellocq’s Ophelia, Native Guard, Congregation, and Thrall, from two-time U.S.


Beyond Katrina: A Meditation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast By Natasha Trethewey Cover Image
$22.95
ISBN: 9780820349022
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Published: University of Georgia Press - August 1st, 2015

"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.


Native Guard: Poems: A Pulitzer Prize Winner By Natasha Trethewey Cover Image
$16.99
ISBN: 9780618872657
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Published: Ecco - April 3rd, 2007

Winner of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

Former U.S. Poet Laureate, Natasha Trethewey’s Native Guard is a deeply personal volume that brings together two legacies of the Deep South.


Thrall: Poems By Natasha Trethewey Cover Image
$18.00
ISBN: 9780544586208
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Published: Ecco - September 22nd, 2015

The stunning follow-up volume to Natasha Trethewey's Pulitzer Prize–winning Native Guard, by the 19th Poet Laureate of the United States.

Natasha Trethewey’s poems are at once deeply personal and historical—exploring her own interracial and complicated roots—and utterly American, connecting them to ours.


Event Summary: 
Join author Natasha Trethewey and interviewer Rosemary Magee for a discussion of Trethewey’s memoir, Memorial Drive.