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It took me years of attempts and failed drafts before I finally wrote the elegies I needed to write. - Natasha Trethewey
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The experience of poetry could bring my mother back to me. Poetry offers a different kind of solace - here on earth. - Natasha Trethewey
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I think I felt at some point that I couldn't understand poetry or that it was beyond me or it didn't speak to my experience. I think that was because I hadn't yet found the right poems to invite me in. - Natasha Trethewey
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Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it. - Natasha Trethewey
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I want to be the best advocate and promoter for poetry that I can be. - Natasha Trethewey
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When you begin to think about the past, you realize how much of it is lost to us. - Natasha Trethewey
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My father, Eric Trethewey, is a poet, so I had one right inside the house. And on long trips, he'd tell me, if I got bored in the car, to write a poem about it. And I did find that poetry was a way for me, I think as it for a lot of people, to articulate those things that seem hardest to say. - Natasha Trethewey
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From the catbird seat, I've found poetry to be the necessary utterance it has always been in America. - Natasha Trethewey
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'NewsHour' is very interested in poetry, but they're also interested in not just that something's cute to add on at the end of their programming, but something that actually is integrated into the news. - Natasha Trethewey
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When kids look at broccoli, they call it 'little trees,' because they see it not just for the word 'broccoli.' They see it for what it looks like, the image. We, as adults, forget to think like that. We forget to think figuratively and have to be reminded. - Natasha Trethewey
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Writing 'Native Guard,' I didn't know I was working on a single book. I began writing that book because I was interested in the lesser-known history of these black soldiers stationed off the coast of my hometown. - Natasha Trethewey
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When I write notes in my journal, I'm just trying to scribble down as much as possible. Later on, I decide whether to follow some of those first impressions or whether to abandon them. - Natasha Trethewey
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Writers, particularly poets, always feel exiled in some way - people who don't exactly feel at home, so they try to find a home in language. - Natasha Trethewey
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My mother was murdered by my step-father, my brother's father, who was also named Joel, twenty-five years ago. Whatever sadness or burden I've been living with since then, my brother's also been living with, but he's lived with the added burden of having the exact same name as our mother's murderer. - Natasha Trethewey
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My obsessions stay the same - historical memory and historical erasure. I am particularly interested in the Americas and how a history that is rooted in colonialism, the language and iconography of empire, disenfranchisement, the enslavement of peoples, and the way that people were sectioned off because of blood. - Natasha Trethewey
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People always want to be on the right side of history; it is a lot easier to say, 'What an atrocity that was' then it is to say, 'What an atrocity this is.' - Natasha Trethewey
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I think the biggest thing that I have to do is to remind people that poetry is there for us to turn to not only to remind us that we're not alone - for example, if we are grieving the loss of someone - but also to help us celebrate our joys. That's why so many people I know who've gotten married will have a poem read at the wedding. - Natasha Trethewey
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I think poetry's always a kind of faith. It is the kind that I have. - Natasha Trethewey
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Growing up, my birthday was always Confederate Memorial Day. It helped to create this profound sense of awareness about the Civil War and the 100 years between the Civil War and the civil rights movement and my parents' then-illegal and interracial marriage. - Natasha Trethewey
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