Natasha Trethewey on Her Childhood in the South

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: "Signs, Oakvale, Mississippi, 1941"; "Flounder"

Topics: Landscapes in Gulfport and New Orleans; nature and the natural world versus the lived world; the psychological South

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