Native Guard

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.

• Item Weight: 3.36 ounces
• Paperback: 51 pages
• ISBN-10: 0618872655
• ISBN-13: 978-0618872657
• Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.26 x 8.25 inches
• Reading level: 14 and up
• Publisher: Mariner Books (April 3, 2007)
• Language: English