Native Guard

Natasha Trethewey · 2006 CE · Poem · Modern / American · Contemporary

Elegies for the poet's mother, murdered by a former stepfather, open a book whose second half is a sonnet sequence in the voice of a Black Union soldier guarding Confederate prisoners on Ship Island, Mississippi, in the Civil War. Memory and the neglected record of the Louisiana Native Guard are laid beside one another. A lyric collection with a documented historical core, awarded the Pulitzer Prize.

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