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Native guard

Trethewey, Natasha D. 1966- (author.).

Summary: These poems explore the complex memory of the American South, history that belongs to all Americans. The sequence forming the spine of the collection follows the ''Native Guard'', one of the first black regiments mustered into service in the Civil War. In the author's hometown of Gulfport, Mississippi, a plaque honors Confederate POWs, but there is no memorial to these vanguard Union soldiers. This collection is both a pilgrimage and an elegy, as the author employs a variety of poetic forms to create a lyrical monument to these forgotten voices. Interwoven are poems honoring her mother and recalling her fraught childhood; her parents' interracial marriage was still illegal in 1966 in Mississippi. This book is a narrative caught in the intersections of public and personal testament. As Rita Dove proclaimed, "Here is a young poet in full possession of her craft."

Item details

  • ISBN: 0618872655
  • ISBN: 9780618872657
  • ISBN: 0618604634
  • ISBN: 9780618604630
  • ISBN: 9780547055480
  • ISBN: 054705548X
  • Physical Description: print
    regular print
    51 pages ; 22 cm
  • Edition: First Mariner books edition.
  • Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company, 2007.

Contents / Notes

General Note:
"A Mariner book."
Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 47-49).
Formatted Contents Note: I. Theories of time and space -- The southern crescent -- Genus narcissus -- Graveyard blues -- What the body can say -- Photograph: ice storm 1971 -- What is evidence -- Letter -- After your death -- Myth -- At dusk -- II. Pilgrimage -- Scenes from a documentary history of Mississippi. 1 King Cotton, 1907 ; 2. Glyph, Aberdeen 1913 ; 3. Flood ; 4. You are late -- Native guard -- Again, the fields -- III. Pastoral -- Miscegenation -- My mother dreams another country -- Southern history -- Blond -- Southern Gothic -- Incident -- Providence -- Monument -- Elegy for the native guards -- South.
Awards Note:
Pulitzer prize for poetry, 2007.

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      Headquarters Library 		811 TRETHEWEY, NATASHA ( Send Text)
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      Riverdale Branch 		811.6 TRETH- EWEY, NAT- ASHA D. ( Send Text)
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