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by: Natasha Trethewey
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 811
EAN: 9780547055480
Format: Special Edition
ISBN: 054705548X
Label: Houghton Mifflin
Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 64
Publication Date: November 06, 2007
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Sales Rank: 188239
Studio: Houghton Mifflin
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Winner of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for poetry, Natasha Trethewey's elegiac Native Guard is a deeply personal volume that brings together two legacies of the Deep South.
The title of the collection refers to the Mississippi Native Guards, a black regiment whose role in the Civil War has been largely overlooked by history. As a child in Gulfport, Mississippi, in the 1960s, Trethewey could gaze across the water to the fort on Ship Island where Confederate captives once were guarded by black soldiers serving the Union cause. The racial legacy of the South touched Trethewey's life on a much more immediate level, too. Many of the poems in Native Guard pay loving tribute to her mother, whose marriage to a white man was illegal in her native Mississippi in the 1960s. Years after her mother's tragic death, Trethewey reclaims her memory, just as she reclaims the voices of the black soldiers whose service has been all but forgotten.
Included in this beautiful new edition of Native Guard is an audio CD of the poems read by the author -- a lovely gift for anyone who loves poetry that speaks to the heart and mind.
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I am not normally a reader of poetry, but I picked up this collection with a book club I belong to. Ms. Trethewey presents at least three views into her life and the history of Mississippi: from a child's eyes, from a glimpse of her mother's life, and through the eyes of a member of the Native Guard, an ex-slave in the Union army.
In addition to the compelling background of growing up bi-racial in an oppressive south, the poetry is finely crafted. If you are undecided, give this collection ... Read More
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