Beyond Katrina Quotes

“Although I had intended to consider the impossibility of returning to those places we’ve come from—not because the places are gone or substantially different but because we are—by August of 2005, the poem had become quite literal: so much of what I’d known of my home was either gone or forever changed.

Trethewey, Natasha (2010-09-15). Beyond Katrina: A Meditation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast (Sarah Mills Hodge Fund Publication) (Kindle Locations 79-81). University of Georgia Press. Kindle Edition.”
― Natasha Trethewey, Beyond Katrina: A Meditation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast

“It's as if what was to come was already laid out before us, that our fate lay in the geography toward which we were blithely driving.”
― Natasha Trethewey, Beyond Katrina: A Meditation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast