Native Guard: Poems ONE OF THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE

ONE OF THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE AND THE CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY'S TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR

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Native Guard: Poems ONE OF THE CHICAGO TRIBUNEWinner of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry Former U. S. Poet Laureate, Natasha Trethewey's Native Guard is a deeply personal volume that brings together two legacies of the Deep South. Through elegaic 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