Natasha Trethewey Discusses Her Poems on the Transformation of the South

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Channel: Emory University · 2010 · Education

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Jake Adam York and Natasha Trethewey discuss psychological geographies, southern regions, music and form in writing, estrangement and familiarity in poetry, self and the city in an interview recorded in Decatur, Georgia, on May 13, 2010.

Poems discussed: "Pastoral"

Topics: Palimpsests, literary and geographical; displaced and phantom landscapes; concealment and erasure, revelation and concealment

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