{"product_id":"native-guard-poems-isbn-9780618872657","title":"Native Guard: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eWinner of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFormer U.S. Poet Laureate, Natasha Trethewey’s Native Guard is a deeply personal volume that brings together two legacies of the Deep South.\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 Native Guard 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 | \u003cp\u003e\"Elegiac...eloquently told...profoundly moving...Trethewey is clearly a poet to savor.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMaxine Kumin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"In a very few years Natasha Trethewey has created a small body of nearly flawless poetry.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRodney Jones\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"[Natasha Tretheway’s] voice is a rare, beautiful gift to the reader.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWilliam Ferris, Joel R. Williamson Eminent Professor of History, UNC Chapel Hill\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Natasha Trethewey serves our profound need for that rare thing—artistically fine Civil War poetry...She is our Native Guard.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDavid Madden, Louisiana State University, author of Sharpshooter: A Novel of the Civil War\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The graceful form conceals a gritty subject.... Trethewey has a gift for squeezing the contradictions of the South into very tightly controlled lines.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWashington Post Book World\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Consistently presents Trethewey's belief that history is layered, full of bones and ghosts, and that the poet's job is to penetrate and expose.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSt. Louis Post-Dispatch\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A moving testimony.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAtlanta Journal-Constitution\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Trethewey is sure-handed in her use of language and fearless in confronting her own personal issues.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Advocate\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Remarkable.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRobert Pinsky, Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ecco","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44890232389861,"sku":"NP9780618872657","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780618872657.jpg?v=1730232824","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/native-guard-poems-isbn-9780618872657","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}