{"id":683,"date":"2007-04-19T19:07:10","date_gmt":"2007-04-19T23:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2007\/04\/19\/natasha-trethewey-theories-time-space\/"},"modified":"2010-07-16T19:12:10","modified_gmt":"2010-07-16T23:12:10","slug":"natasha-trethewey-theories-time-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2007\/04\/19\/natasha-trethewey-theories-time-space\/","title":{"rendered":"Natasha Trethewey, “Theories of Time and Space"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n

You can get there from here, though
\nthere\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s no going home.<\/p>\n

Everywhere you go will be somewhere
\nyou\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve never been. Try this:<\/p>\n

head south on Mississippi 49, one-
\nby-one mile markers ticking off<\/p>\n

another minute of your life. Follow this
\nto its natural conclusion—dead end<\/p>\n

at the coast, the pier at Gulfport where
\nriggings of shrimp boats are loose stitches<\/p>\n

in a sky threatening rain. Cross over
\nthe man-made beach, 26 miles of sand<\/p>\n

dumped on a mangrove swamp—buried
\nterrain of the past. Bring only<\/p>\n

what you must carry—tome of memory
\nits random blank pages. On the dock<\/p>\n

where you board the boat for Ship Island,
\nsomeone will take your picture:<\/p>\n

the photograph—who you were—
\nwill be waiting when you return<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

From Native Guard<\/i><\/a>, winner of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for poetry. Hear Tretheway read this poem<\/a> in a recording of a March 2007 event at the AWP writers’ conference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You can get there from here, though there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s no going home. Everywhere you go will be somewhere you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve never been. Try this: head south on Mississippi 49, one- by-one mile markers ticking off another minute of your life. Follow this to its natural conclusion—dead end at the coast, the pier at Gulfport where riggings of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}