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Natasha Trethewey named 19th US poet laureate
Tuesday, June 12, 2012
“They crossed the river into Cincinnati, a city whose name begins with a sound like sin, the sound of wrong – mis in Mississippi.”
Trethewey’s next collection of poems, “Thrall,” will be published this year. It explores her relationship with her white father and shared and divergent memory within families, along with poems about paintings and the history of knowledge from the Enlightenment.
Copyright 2012 The Associated Press
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