Natasha D Trethewey
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
The former U.S. poet laureate shares a personal memoir about the brutal murder of her mother at the hands of her former stepfather, and how this profound experience of loss shaped her as an adult and an artist.
2) Native guard
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2007, c2006
Edition
1st Mariner Books ed.
Language
English
Description
Natasha Trethewey's muscular, luminous poems explore the complex memory of the American South--history that belongs to all Americans. The sequence forming the spine of the collection follows the ''Native Guard'', one of the first black regiments mustered into service in the Civil War. In Trethewey's hometown of Gulfport, Mississippi, a plaque honors Confederate POWs, but there is no memorial to these vanguard Union soldiers. ''Native Guard'' is both...