The daughter of a Black mother and a white father, Trethewey grew up in a South still segregated by custom, if not by law, and her life astride the color line has inspired her recovery of lost histories, public and private. Trethewey completed her B.A. Tasha is Orpheus, Odysseus, Narcissus. Access this case on the Georgia Northern District Court's Electronic Court Filings (ECF) System Search for Party Aliases Associated Cases Get book recommendations, fiction, poetry, and dispatches from the world of literature in your in-box. Stewart v. State, 268 Ga. 886, 887 ( 494 S.E.2d 665) (1998). "Memorial Drive" is metaphorical memory takes us for a ride but it is also a road in Atlanta, a major east-west artery that "winds east from downtown ending at Stone Mountain, the nation's largest monument to the Confederacy." "Indeed, the only thing that appears to distinguish Mr. Charles from others who were found to be Career Offenders years ago and who now show evidence of rehabilitation is that the vast majority of these individuals are still incarcerated while Mr. Charles was released from prison and, thus, had the opportunity to interact with society outside of prison," U.S. Attorney Donald Cochran wrote. At the age of seventeen, he was awarded a full scholarship for track and field by Kentucky State College (now University) where he received his B.A. The tragedy left Trethewey with what she calls a wound that with never heal. The other is the beginning of an unfinished document of unclear purpose, perhaps a speech or a thank-you letter, addressed to the shelter for battered women that had helped her toward what looked, at that point, like a safe exodus from the marriage. Its the kind of horrid algebra we do in the years of aftermath. Trethewey was seven when Joel Grimmette, a controlling, violent Vietnam veteran entered their life. Tretheweys attention to lost histories finds full expression in the Pulitzer Prizewinning Native Guard (2006). Grimmette did not appeal at that time. Resolution of these claims would have required facts to be established that were not on the record and therefore no out-of-time appeal is available. C.J. Gwen is Persephone: She picks a bright flower and the earth splits open beneath her, taking her into its dark throat. Gwen is Eurydice. In 1985, when Natasha Trethewey was 19, her former stepfather shot and killed her mother at point-blank range at their home in Atlanta. We know from the first page of this riveting memoir that poet Natasha Trethewey's mother is dead.