Native Guard by Natasha Trethewey

Native Guard by Natasha Trethewey

Through elegiac verse that honors her mother and tells of her own fraught childhood, Natasha Trethewey confronts the racial legacy of her native Deep South -- where one of the first black regiments, the Louisiana Native Guards, was called into service during the Civil War. Trethewey's resonant and beguiling collection is a haunting conversation between personal experience and national history.

"Elegiac..eloquently told...profoundly moving...Trethewey is clearly a poet to savor." --Maxine Kumin "In a very few years Natasha Trethewey has created a small body of nearly flawless poetry." --Rodney Jones "[Natasha Tretheway’s] voice is a rare, beautiful gift to the reader." --William Ferris, Joel R. Williamson Eminent Professor of History, UNC Chapel Hill "Natasha Trethewey serves our profound need for that rare thing—artistically fine Civil War poetry...She is our Native Guard." --David Madden, Louisiana State University, author of Sharpshooter: A Novel of the Civil War —

Natasha Trethewey is a former US poet laureate and the author of five collections of poetry, as well as a book of creative nonfiction. She is currently the Board of Trustees Professor of English at Northwestern University. In 2007 she won the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for her collection Native Guard.

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ISBN 13	9780618872657
ISBN 10	0618872655
Title	Native Guard
Author	Natasha Trethewey
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Year published	2020-03-06
Number of pages	64
Prizes	Winner of Pulitzer Prize Finalist (United States).
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