| #925446 in Books | Houghton Mifflin | 2007-11-06 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.25 x.19 x5.50l,.36 | File type: PDF | 64 pages | ||47 of 48 people found the following review helpful.| Growing up fast in wartime!|By Dennis H. Kendel|Since I lived through the occupation of Denmark myself I can verify the authenticity of many of the changes depicted in ordinary danish peoples lives as a result of the occupation. The book was well written, with the mind to address young peoples interests .I was 7 years old when the occupation began and 12 years when it ended.|From Publishers Weekly|Trethewey (Domestic Work) draws on the life of her deceased mother and on the history of Mississippi, where the poet and her mother's family grew up, to limn a multiracial South and her own multiracial heritage. One poem tries to pr
Winner of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for poetry, Natasha Trethewey’s elegiac Native Guard is a deeply personal volume that brings together two legacies of the Deep South.
The title of the collection refers to the Mississippi Native Guards, a black regiment whose role in the Civil War has been largely overlooked by history. As a child in Gulfport, Mississippi, in the 1960s, Trethewey could gaze across the water to the fort on Ship Island where Confederate c...
You easily download any file type for your gadget.Native Guard, Poems | Natasha Trethewey. I was recommended this book by a dear friend of mine.
