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Native Guard [first edition, first issue]
by Trethewey, Natasha
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near fine/near fine
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Los Angeles, California, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2006. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine/near fine. 49 pp. Black paper-covered boards, spine lettered in gilt, with the dust jacket. 49 pp. Slight bump to head of spine, else fine. Trethewey's third collection of poems, winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Later reissued with a different cover design, Pulitzer seal, and CD, this is the first issue. Trethewey served as U.S. Poet Laureate from 2012 to 2014.
Synopsis
Growing up in the Deep South, Natasha Trethewey was never told that in her hometown of Gulfport, Mississippi, black soldiers had played a pivotal role in the Civil War. Off the coast, on Ship Island, stood a fort that had once been a Union prison housing Confederate captives. Protecting the fort was the second regiment of the Louisiana Native Guards -- one of the Union's first official black units. Trethewey's new book of poems pays homage to the soldiers who served and whose voices have echoed through her own life. The title poem imagines the life of a former slave stationed at the fort, who is charged with writing letters home for the illiterate or invalid POWs and his fellow soldiers. Just as he becomes the guard of Ship Island's memory, so Trethewey recalls her own childhood as the daughter of a black woman and a white man. Her parents' marriage was still illegal in 1966 Mississippi. The racial legacy of the Civil War echoes through elegiac poems that honor her own mother and the forgotten history of her native South. Native Guard is haunted by the intersection of national and personal experience.
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- Bookseller
- Triolet Rare Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1872
- Title
- Native Guard [first edition, first issue]
- Author
- Trethewey, Natasha
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near fine
- Jacket Condition
- near fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 2006
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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Los Angeles, California
About Triolet Rare Books, ABAA
Triolet Rare Books, member ABAA/ILAB, specializes in twentieth century art and literature with a focus on modernism, livres d'artistes, poetry, and the avant-garde.
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