Work of Natasha Trethewey

New books on writing poetry. Highlights of Poetry. Index of poetry. How to Write Poetry. Books read.

How to write specific forms: Haibun. Haiku. Hay(na)ku. Rengay. Renku. Tanka. Ballade. Concrete. Ghazal. Lai. Pantoum. Prose poem. Rondeau. Rubáiyát. Sestina. Skaldic verse. Sonnet. Terza rima. Triolet. Tritina. Villanelle.

Poets: Adam Zagajewski. Aleda Shirley. Anne Carson. Bashō. The Beowulf Poet. Billy Collins. Billy Collins exercise. Snorri's Edda. Carl Dennis. Charles Atkinson. Corey Marks. François Villon Franz Wright. Galway Kinnell. Gary Young. The Gawain Poet. Jack Gilbert. Jane Hirshfield. J. Zimmerman. J. Zimmerman (haiku). J. Zimmerman (tanka). Jorie Graham. Karen Braucher. Karl Shapiro. Kay Ryan. Laureate Poets: Britain; USA. Louise Glück. Len Anderson. Li-Young Lee. Linda Pastan. Natasha Trethewey. Nordic Skalds. Pulitzer Poetry Prize (U.S.A). Richard Hugo. Robert Bly. Sara Teasdale. Shiki (haiku). Snorri's Edda. Stephen Dunn. Ted Kooser. W.S. Merwin.

Natasha Trethewey
Books of Poetry.

Books of Poetry (alphabetical)

Bellocq's Ophelia (2002) by Natasha Trethewey

• Natasha Trethewey's 2nd collection of poems.

Domestic Work (2000) by Natasha Trethewey

• Natasha Trethewey's 1st collection of poems.

Native Guard (2006) by Natasha Trethewey

• Natasha Trethewey's 3rd collection of poems.
• Explores the life resulting from being born to a white woman and a black father in the racially fraught Southeast USA, and the black heritage that she thereby owns.
• Prefatory 1-page poem.
• 3 numbered sections with 10, 4, and 11 poems respectively.
• 3 pages of notes.
• The total of 26 poems (29 if you count each of the four numbered parts of 'Scenes from a Documentary' occupy 37 pages.
• Average = 1.4 pages per poem (or 1.3 ppp).
• The title poem 'Native Guard' is a 10-sonnet sequence with the end line of each sonnet reappearing at least in part as the first line of the subsequent stanza. Thus it is a crown of sonnets.
• About 7 (a little over a quarter) are rhymed, sometimes with slant rhyme.
• Several are in form: a crown of 10 sonnets, solo sonnets, a ghazal, a pantoum.
• Various stanzaic forms including:
  • 6 poems in 3-line stanzas (a form also used in some sonnets
  • 5 poems in 2-line stanzas (a form also used in some sonnets
  • 4 single-stanza poems.
  • 2 poems in 4-line stanzas.
  • 2 poems in 8-line stanzas.
  • 1 poem in 9-line stanzas.

Links and Books.

Links and Books.

• Best American Poetry series.
• Best Poems by the Best Poets - Some Lists of Winners.
• Laureate: the Poets Laureate of Britain
• Laureate: the Poets Laureate of the U.S.A.
• Other Books of Poetry Form.

Related pages: Poetry index. How to Write Poetry. How to write specific forms: Haibun. Haiku. Hay(na)ku. Rengay. Tanka.

New books on writing poetry. Books of Poetry Form.

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