Native Guard
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9780547416328 (0547416326)
Publish date: September 18th 2012
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages no: 64
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
History,
Academic,
School,
Literature,
Cultural,
American,
Adult,
African American,
College,
Southern,
Poetry,
Female Authors
I recently finished two volumes of poetry by popular female poets I have previously not had the pleasure of reading. Mary Oliver has been hovering on the bestseller lists a lot recently with her two most recent volumes, Thousand Mornings and Dog Songs. Natasha Trethewey is the recipient of the Pulit...
The opening poem of Tretheway’s collection, “Theories of Time and Space”, contains the lines, “Everywhere you go will be somewhere/you’ve never been . . .” This is what the poems in this collection fulfill. Tretheway’s book is dedicated to her mother, and many of the poems spea...
These poems are wonderful, however they are sad as most revolve around the death of her mother and the Civil War. I can say they are not what I was expecting when I heard my professor talk about the book but anyone who loves poetry will certainly enjoy Trethewey's work