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What's left is palimpsest—one memory bleeding into another, overwriting it.

Natasha Trethewey

A man's pursuit of knowledge is greater than his shortcomings, the limits of his vision.

Natasha Trethewey

You can get there from here, though there's no going home. Everywhere you go will be somewhere you've never been. "Theories of Time and Space

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There are indeed all sorts of men/ who visit here: those who want/ nothing but to talk or hear the soft tones/ of a woman's voice; others prefer/ simply to gaze upon me, my face/ turned from them as they touch/ only themselves. And then there are those,/ of course, whose desires I cannot commit/ to paper.

Natasha Trethewey

Goodbye...
is the waving map of your palm, is
a stone on my tongue.

Natasha Trethewey

That home-going road's always full of holes;
Though we slow down, time's wheel still rolls.

Natasha Trethewey

All the grave markers, all the crude headstones—
water-lost. Now fish dart among their bones,
and we listen for what the waves intone. Only the fort remains, near forty feet high, round, unfinished, half open to the sky, the elements—wind, rain—God's deliberate eye.

Natasha Trethewey

Death stops the body's work, the soul's a journeyman.

Natasha Trethewey

Natasha Trethewey

Natasha Trethewey

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Born: April 26, 1966 (age 59)

Bio: Natasha Trethewey is an American poet who was appointed United States Poet Laureate in 2012 and again in 2014. She won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for her 2006 collection Native Guard, and she is a former Poet Laureate of Mississippi.

Known for:

Native Guard (2006)
Bellocq's Ophelia (2002)
Domestic Work: Poems (2000)

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