For several years now, I've looked forward to reading the poems of Natasha Trethewey, and this past week I treated myself to a copy of her Pulitzer Prize winning collection, "Native Guard." She is a poet who embodies the essential nature of American poets from Whitman forward: a freedom to tell their story. For Trethewey that means an exceedingly accessible encounter with a life well examined. In her own words:
from THEORIES OF TIME AND SPACE
You can get there from here, though
there's no going home.
Everywhere you go will be somewhere
you've never been....
Yet, somewhere that for me feels like another room in a home that only grows more and more amazing the older I become.
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