{"product_id":"beyond-katrina-a-meditation-on-the-mississippi-gulf-coast-paperback","title":"Beyond Katrina: A Meditation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eNatasha Trethewey\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eNatasha Trethewey\u003c\/b\u003e (Based on a Book by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBeyond Katrina\u003c\/i\u003e is poet Natasha Trethewey's very personal profile of the Mississippi Gulf Coast and of the people there whose lives were forever changed by hurricane Katrina. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTrethewey spent her childhood in Gulfport, where much of her mother's extended family, including her younger brother, still lives. As she worked to understand the devastation that followed the hurricane, Trethewey found inspiration in Robert Penn Warren's book \u003ci\u003eSegregation: The Inner Conflict in the South\u003c\/i\u003e, in which he spoke with southerners about race in the wake of the \u003ci\u003eBrown\u003c\/i\u003e decision, capturing an event of wide impact from multiple points of view. Weaving her own memories with the experiences of family, friends, and neighbors, Trethewey traces the erosion of local culture and the rising economic dependence on tourism and casinos. She chronicles decades of wetland development that exacerbated the destruction and portrays a Gulf Coast whose citizens--particularly African Americans--were on the margins of American life well before the storm hit. Most poignantly, Trethewey illustrates the destruction of the hurricane through the story of her brother's efforts to recover what he lost and his subsequent incarceration. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRenowned for writing about the idea of home, Trethewey's attempt to understand and document the damage to Gulfport started as a series of lectures at the University of Virginia that were subsequently published as essays in the \u003ci\u003eVirginia Quarterly Review\u003c\/i\u003e. For \u003ci\u003eBeyond Katrina\u003c\/i\u003e, Trethewey has expanded this work into a narrative that incorporates personal letters, poems, and photographs, offering a moving meditation on the love she holds for her childhood home. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA Sarah Mills Hodge Fund Publication.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eNATASHA TRETHEWEY was the Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, 2012-14. She is the author of four collections of poetry: \u003ci\u003eThrall\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDomestic Work\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBellocq's Ophelia\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eNative Guard\u003c\/i\u003e, for which she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. She is the Robert W. Woodruff Professor of English and Creative Writing at Emory University.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 144\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 8.4 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 01, 2015\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52007470629165,"sku":"9780820349022","price":25.69,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/VkZRZ1FBZGR2cWFIbjdjVG0vb1AyUT09.webp?v=1776815244","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/beyond-katrina-a-meditation-on-the-mississippi-gulf-coast-paperback","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}