Native Guard: Poems: A Pulitzer Prize Winner Binding:Paperback purple sprayed edges with stenciled

purple sprayed edges with stenciled artwork and special design features

he grows to understand just how much his parents have left behind

including:

She's always felt there was something more out there

Black educators were fired en masse

Native Guard: Poems: A Pulitzer Prize Winner Binding:Paperback purple sprayed edges with stenciledWinner 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