{"product_id":"native-guard-poems-paperback","title":"Native Guard: Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eNatasha Trethewey\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormer U.S. Poet Laureate, Natasha Trethewey's \u003cem\u003eNative Guard\u003c\/em\u003e is a deeply personal volume that brings together two legacies of the Deep South.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough 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 War.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe title of the collection refers to the 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe racial legacy of the South touched Trethewey's life on a much more immediate level, too. Many of the poems in \u003cem\u003eNative Guard\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTrethewey's resonant and beguiling collection is a haunting conversation between personal experience and national history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eNATASHA TRETHEWEY is the current U.S. Poet Laureate and is the Charles Howard Candler Professor of English and Creative Writing at Emory University. \u003ci\u003eNative Guard\u003c\/i\u003e, her third collection of poetry, received the 2007 Pulitzer Prize. \u003ci\u003eBeyond Katrina: A Meditation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast\u003c\/i\u003e was published in 2010. A new collection of poetry, \u003ci\u003eThrall\u003c\/i\u003e, is forthcoming in September.\u003c\/p\u003e\n        \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 64\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.3 x 8.1 x 5.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 01, 2007\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAward:\u003c\/strong\u003e Pulitzer Prize (2007)\u003c\/div\u003e\n                ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51761749885216,"sku":"9780618872657","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/2f5bc2e6c40567d7c4d05322e3b0385e.webp?v=1780211975","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/native-guard-poems-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}