“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.” PeopleWayLanguageMemoriesBloodHistoricalObsessionEmpiresRootedColonialismEnslavementIconographyDisenfranchisement Author:Natasha Trethewey
“My own journey in becoming a poet began with memory - with the need to record and hold on to what was being lost. One of my earliest poems, Give and Take, was about my Aunt Sugar, how I was losing her to her memory loss.” NeedsGivingLostMemoriesMy OwnLossRecordsJourneyPoetBecomingLosingSugarAuntGive And TakeMemory LossLost OnesLosing Her Author:Natasha Trethewey
“What's left is palimpsest—one memory bleeding into another, overwriting it.” LeftMemoriesBleedingPalimpsest Book:Thrall: Poems Source: Thrall: Poems
