Love and Loss

Memorial Drive by Natasha Trethewey (Ecco)

t age 19, Trethewey, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and two-time U.S. poet laureate, lost her mother after she was murdered by Trethewey’s stepfather. explores the poet’s life growing up in Mississippi with a Black mother and a white father, the pain of losing her mother so tragically, and how those experiences and others have influenced her creative life.