Native Guard: Poems, (Paperback)

from plenilune

Every time I go back to this book, I am more awed by Trethewey's craft and talent. Each poem on each reading & re-reading is a small awakening.

from plenilune

Every time I go back to this book, I am more awed by Trethewey's craft and talent. Each poem on each reading & re-reading is a small awakening.

from johnxlibris

Natasha Trethewey's recent collection brings poetry back into the home. Or at least, it brought it back into mine. The elegant simplicity of her style often draped over complex forms is soft and inviting even when the subject matter is cold, stricken, and calloused. The presence of her mother inv...

from bell7

This Pulitzer Prize-winning poetry collection by Natasha Trethewey contains twenty-six poems divided into three sections. Each section's content is linked thematically as the poet examines her grief over her mother's death, the history of the eponymous 'Native Guard,' and growing up of mixed race...

from danhammang

It's hard to know what to say about a great book of poetry. The verse is grounded in her experiences growing up in Mississippi and the memory of her mother. There is a deep sadness and longing in her poetry. She said she wrote it to come to terms with the deathj of her mother.