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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: house of being
  name:
    name part: Trethewey, Natasha D.
    name part: 1966-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ctu
    date issued: 2024
    copyright date: 2024
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 77 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
  abstract: In a shotgun house in Gulfport, Mississippi, at the crossroads of Highway 49, the legendary highway of the Blues, and Jefferson Street, Natasha Trethewey learned to read and write. Before the land was a crossroads, however, it was a pasture, a farming settlement where, after the Civil War, a group of formerly enslaved women, men and children made a new home. In this intimate and searching meditation, Trethewey revisits the geography of her childhood to trace the origins of her writing life, born of the need to create new metaphors to inhabit "so that my story would not be determined for me." She recalls the markers of history and culture that dotted the horizons of her youth, the Confederate flags proudly flown throughout Mississippi, her gradual understanding of her own identity as the child of a Black mother and a white father and her grandmother's collages lining the hallway, offering glimpses of the world as it could be. With the clarity of a prophet and the grace of a poet, Trethewey offers up a vision of writing as reclamation, of our own lives and the stories of the vanished, forgotten and erased.
  table of contents: The World Book -- Crossroads -- The House of Being -- Native Pastures.
  note: Natasha Trethewey.
  note: "The 2022 Windham-Campbell Lecture."
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Trethewey, Natasha D
      name part: 1966-
    topic: Authorship
  subject:
    topic: Authorship
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
  subject:
    topic: African American poets
    genre: Biography
  classification: PS3570.R433 H687 2024
  classification: 811/.54
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Why I write series
  identifier: 9780300265927
  identifier: 0300265921
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 231006
    record change date: 20240916163407.6
    record identifier: in00004791420