Native Guard: Poems: A Pulitzer Prize Winner

Native Guard: Poems: A Pulitzer Prize WinnerWinner of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry Former U. S. Poet Laureate, Natasha Trethewey's Native Guard is a deeply personal volume that brings together two legacies of the Deep South. Through elegaic 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

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it will make you cry (again and again)

and the United States--as well as the author's own extensive travel to the island over the same period--this is a stunning and monumental account like no other

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these stories are a celebration of Indigenous peoples' survival and imagination

a virtuoso of American vernacular--the preacher's hyperbole and the politician's rhetoric

December 2023