Natasha Trethewey tries to go beyond Katrina

For Natasha Trethewey, after Hurricane Katrina, she visited the hometown of North Gulfport, Michigan, became a powerful multimedia project combining poetry and photography. This project, called Congregation, collaborates with Virginia Quarterly Review and Studio 360 Beyond Katrina: The second part of meditation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Tretheway discussed this project on New Yorker's bookshelf this week.

Write under these special conditions - the immediacy of the time of your answer, the emotional immediacy of your subject - have you learned something you want to continue learning?

Many people comment on how delicate I look in these poems. That is the most important thing I have learned. When I went there to do this project I thought it was not difficult because I wrote about my hometown and its people, history and my family - I always think this is an insider I think. But this time, after receiving the Pulitzer Prize my life experienced tremendous change and directed such attention. .

Another writer of the Mississippi Bay that influenced my research was the American poet prize winner Natasha Tresway. In "Beyond Katrina: Meditation in the Mississippi Bay", Trethewey looked at strengthening the coastline of the Mississippi Bay by the storm like Hayden. Trethewey also explores memory and cultural geography, with a focus on the negative memories of Beauvoir of her family. Trethewey's work is the first example of memory that I discovered that Popov's dominant story was overturned.

For Natasha Trethewey, after Hurricane Katrina, she visited the hometown of North Gulfport, Michigan, became a powerful multimedia project combining poetry and photography. This project, called Congregation, collaborates with Virginia Quarterly Review and Studio 360 Beyond Katrina: The second part of meditation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Tretheway discussed this project on New Yorkers' bookshelf this week. Many people commented on how fragile I think in these poems. This is the most important thing I learned. When I went there to do this project I thought it was not difficult because I wrote about my hometown and its people, history and my family - I always think this is an insider I think. But this time, after receiving the Pulitzer Prize my life experienced tremendous change and directed such attention. .