Book
Native guard
Record details
- ISBN: 054705548X
- ISBN: 9780547055480
- ISBN: 0618604634
- ISBN: 9780618604630
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Physical Description:
51 p. ; 22 cm.
print - Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2006.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 47-49). |
| Formatted Contents Note: | I: The southern crescent -- Genus narcissus -- Graveyard blues -- What the body can say -- Photograph: ice storm 1971 -- What is evidence -- Letter -- After your death -- Myth -- At dusk -- II: Pilgrimage -- Scenes from a documentary history of Mississippi -- King Cotton, 1907 -- Glyph, Aberdeen 1913 -- Flood -- You are late -- Native guard -- Again, the fields -- III: Pastoral -- Miscegenation -- My mother dreams another country -- Southern history -- Blond -- Southern Gothic -- Incident -- Providence -- Monument -- Elegy for the native guards -- South. |
| Summary, etc.: | A compilation of poetry addresses the complex history of the American South, offering a lyrical tribute to the Native Guard, one of the first black regiments in service during the Civil War and paying tribute to the author's mother and her illegal interracial marriage. |
| Awards Note: | Lillian Smith Book Award, 2007 |
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