| Native Guard: Poems: A Pulitzer Prize Winner Contributor(s): Trethewey, Natasha (Author) |
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ISBN: 0618872655 ISBN-13: 9780618872657 Publisher: Ecco Press OUR PRICE: $15.29 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2007 Annotation: Through elegiac 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. Trethewey's resonant and beguiling collection is a haunting conversation between personal experience and national history. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - Asian American - Poetry | Caribbean & Latin American |
| Dewey: 811.6 |
| Physical Information: 0.3" H x 5.3" W x 8.1" (0.20 lbs) 64 pages |
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Contributor Bio(s): Trethewey, Natasha: - NATASHA TRETHEWEY, two-term U.S. Poet Laureate, Pulitzer Prize winner, and 2017 Heinz Award recipient, has written five collections of poetry and one book of nonfiction. An American Academy of Arts and Sciences fellow, she is currently Board of Trustees professor of English at Northwestern University. She lives in Evanston, Illinois. |