Natasha Trethewey was born in Gulfport, Mississippi, the daughter of poet, professor, and Canadian emigrant Eric Trethewey and social worker Gwendolyn Ann Turnbough The daughter of a mixedrace marriage, Trethewey experienced her parents' divorce when she was sixThe surest answer to the great question is in Natasha Trethewey's motives for representing in the total body of her poetry to date Despite change, much in the nation she currently serves as Poet Laureate remains unchanged All people are held in thrall by someone's camera, by someone's paint brush, by someone's hegemonic eyeNatasha Trethewey _____ Elegy for my father I think by now the river must be thick with salmon Late August, I imagine it as it was that morning drizzle needling the surface, mist at the banks like a net settling around us—everything damp and shining That morning, awkward and heavy in our hip waders, we stalked Forms Of Modernism 1900 1950 Part Iii The Cambridge History Of American Poetry A...