Natasha Trethewey Quotes
When I was growing up there, North Gulfport was referred to as 'Little Vietnam' because of the perception of crime and depravity within its borders - as if its denizens were simply a congregation of the downtrodden.
Trethewey, Natasha. Beyond Katrina: A Meditation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. University of Georgia Press, 2010, p. 22.
This title for his poem (see Quotation 643954) itself entered the political vocabulary, and has been used in many periods since its 1932, Great Depression creation. Periodically in the American Democracy, large groups of Americans had not fared as well as the rest of the country and not only seemed to be, but were de facto forgotten by the political establishment, often in a lack of words as well as an absence of help and solutions.
Very often viciousness and prejudice curtails opportunity and openness to possiblilities an can exacerbate economic dislocation.
Natasha Trethewey is an American poet who was appointed United States Poet Laureate in 2012 and again in 2013. She won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for her 2006 collection Native Guard, and she is a former Poet Laureate of Mississippi.
