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Native Guard: Poems  - With CD // FIRST EDITION //

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Native Guard: Poems - With CD // FIRST EDITION //

by Trethewey, Natasha

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9780547055480
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Houghton Mifflin, 2006. 1st Edition . Hardcover. New/New. FIRST Edition and Printing with publishers full number line in place. Slim volume with unopened CD at rear of author speaking her poetry. FLAWLESS volume in same condition UNclipped Dust Jacket. Gift quality. Circular silver "Winner of the Pulitzer Prize" label on front of dust jacket. Mylar protected jacket.

Synopsis

Growing up in the Deep South, Natasha Trethewey was never told that in her hometown of Gulfport, Mississippi, black soldiers had played a pivotal role in the Civil War. Off the coast, on Ship Island, stood a fort that had once been a Union prison housing Confederate captives. Protecting the fort was the second regiment of the Louisiana Native Guards -- one of the Union's first official black units. Trethewey's new book of poems pays homage to the soldiers who served and whose voices have echoed through her own life. The title poem imagines the life of a former slave stationed at the fort, who is charged with writing letters home for the illiterate or invalid POWs and his fellow soldiers. Just as he becomes the guard of Ship Island's memory, so Trethewey recalls her own childhood as the daughter of a black woman and a white man. Her parents' marriage was still illegal in 1966 Mississippi. The racial legacy of the Civil War echoes through elegiac poems that honor her own mother and the forgotten history of her native South. Native Guard is haunted by the intersection of national and personal experience.

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Title
Native Guard: Poems - With CD // FIRST EDITION //
Author
Trethewey, Natasha
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
New
Jacket Condition
New
Quantity Available
1
Edition
1st Edition
ISBN 10
054705548X
ISBN 13
9780547055480
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Place of Publication
Boston
Date Published
2006
Keywords
Poetry; Georgia author; award winning author;

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