Native guard

Resource Information

The work Native guard represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Waubonsee Community College. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Native guard

Statement of responsibility

Natasha Trethewey

Creator

• Trethewey, Natasha D., 1966-

Subject

• African American soldiers
• African American soldiers -- Poetry
• American Civil War (1861-1865)
• History
• Interracial marriage
• Interracial marriage -- Poetry
• Mariage interracial -- Poésie
• Militaires noirs américains -- Poésie
• Military participation -- African American
• Mississippi
• Mississippi -- Poetry
• Mississippi -- Poésie
• 1861-1865
• Mothers -- Poetry
• Mulâtres -- Poésie
• Poetry
• Racially mixed people
• Racially mixed people -- Poetry
• United States
• United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Participation, African American -- Poetry
• États-Unis -- Histoire -- 1861-1865 (Guerre de Sécession) -- Participation des Noirs américains -- Poésie
• Mothers

Genre

• Poetry
• Poésie
• History

Language

eng

Summary

These 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 the author's hometown of Gulfport, Mississippi, a plaque honors Confederate POWs, but there is no memorial to these vanguard Union soldiers. This collection is both a pilgrimage and an elegy, as the author employs a variety of poetic forms to create a lyrical monument to these forgotten voices. Interwoven are poems honoring her mother and recalling her fraught childhood; her parents' interracial marriage was still illegal in 1966 in Mississippi. This book is a narrative caught in the intersections of public and personal testament. As Rita Dove proclaimed, "Here is a young poet in full possession of her craft."

Awards note

Pulitzer prize for poetry, 2007.

Cataloging source

IAC

Dewey number

811/.6

Index

no index present

LC call number

PS3570.R433

LC item number

N38 2007

Literary form

poetry

Nature of contents

bibliography