{"product_id":"native-guard-9780618872657","title":"Native Guard","description":"Winner of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for poetry and former U.S. Poet Laureate, Natasha Trethewey's elegiac Native Guard is a deeply personal volume that brings together two legacies of the Deep South.\u003cbr\u003eThe title of the collection refers to the Mississippi Native Guards, a 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.?\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Natasha Trethewey\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ecco Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 64\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.10h x 5.30w x 0.30d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780618872657\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e Pulitzer Prize - Winner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNATASHA TRETHEWEY is the current U.S. Poet Laureate and is the Charles Howard Candler Professor of English and Creative Writing at Emory University. \u003ci\u003eNative Guard\u003c\/i\u003e, her third collection of poetry, received the 2007 Pulitzer Prize. \u003ci\u003eBeyond Katrina: A Meditation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast\u003c\/i\u003e was published in 2010. A new collection of poetry, \u003ci\u003eThrall\u003c\/i\u003e, is forthcoming in September.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ecco Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":39823765373043,"sku":"9780618872657","price":16.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_17a10cf4-7787-4da0-bd2c-0251bb137b23.jpg?v=1644532933","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/native-guard-9780618872657","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}