Pulitzer poet stirs Korean sorrow
Trethewey’s visit provides inspiration for young generation of writers
May 05, 2009
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| Natasha Trethewey |
With their focus on the black Southern experience, the poems of Natasha Trethewey may not appear immediately relevant to Korean audiences. But oppression, loss and the aftereffects of war are familiar to the psyche of both South Korea and the American South, a message that emerged in the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet’s series of lectures in Seoul last week.
“I’m constantly talking about historical memory,” Trethewey, a professor of English at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, said Friday before her lecture at Yonsei University’s Underwood International College. “I’d like to present a fuller version than what’s always been told by the white men.”
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