Through elegiac verse that honors her mother and tells of her own fraught childhood, Natasha Trethewey confronts the racial legacy of her native Deep South -- where one of the first black regiments, the Louisiana Native Guards, was called into service during the Civil War. Trethewey's resonant and beguiling collection is a haunting conversation between personal experience and national history.
Suggested Age: 14 + years Author: Natasha Trethewey Publisher:Ecco Language: English ISBN-10:0618872655 ISBN-13: 978-0618872657 Paperback: 64 pages
