Poet
Natasha
Trethewey presents her "Elegy for the Native Guards," April 9, 2005,
on Ship Island, Mississippi. Trethewey is the author of
Domestic
Work (2000) and
Bellocq's
Ophelia (2002). Her upcoming
Native
Guard will be published in 2006.
Trethewey's poem "
Theories of Time and Space" is
also available on
Southern Spaces.
"Elegy for the Native Guards" is part of
Poets in Place, an ongoing series of original videos featuring poets reading and discussing their poems in locations they write about.
Published: 10 June 2005
© 2005 Natasha Trethewey and
Southern
Spaces 
