Defending my dream cost my mother her life
Former US poet laureate Natasha Trethewey began writing to express her feelings about her violent stepfather. It would become her career, after her worst fears came true.
Former US poet laureate Natasha Trethewey began writing to express her feelings about her violent stepfather. She told Oulook's Jo Fidgen how it became her comfort and career, after her worst fears came true. Her memoir is called Memorial Drive.
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Presenter: Jo Fidgen
Producer: Thomas Harding Assinder and Sophie Eastaugh
Picture: Natasha Trethewey receives an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters Degree at Emerson College in 2015
Credit: Paul Marotta/Getty Images
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