| Description |
51 pages ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 47-49). |
| Contents |
I: The southern crescent -- Genus narcissus -- Graveyard blues -- What the body can say -- Photograph: ice storm 1971 -- What is evidence -- Letter -- After your death -- Myth -- At dusk -- II: Pilgrimage -- Scenes from a documentary history of Mississippi -- King Cotton, 1907 -- Glyph, Aberdeen 1913 -- Flood -- You are late -- Native guard -- Again, the fields -- III: Pastoral -- Miscegenation -- My mother dreams another country -- Southern history -- Blond -- Southern Gothic -- Incident -- Providence -- Monument -- Elegy for the native guards -- South. |
| Summary |
A compilation of poetry addresses the complex history of the American South, offering a lyrical tribute to the Native Guard, one of the first black regiments in service during the Civil War and paying tribute to the author's mother and her illegal interracial marriage. |
| Awards |
Lillian Smith Book Award, 2007 |
| Subject |
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Participation, African American -- Poetry.
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African American soldiers -- Poetry.
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Racially mixed people -- Poetry.
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Interracial marriage -- Poetry.
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Mississippi -- Poetry.
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Mothers -- Poetry.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Trethewey, Natasha D., 1966- Native guard. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2006 (OCoLC)607721626 |
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Online version: Trethewey, Natasha D., 1966- Native guard. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2006 (OCoLC)608746475 |
| ISBN |
9780618604630 |
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0618604634 |
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9780547055480 |
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054705548X |
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