{"id":3097,"date":"2012-09-02T23:41:29","date_gmt":"2012-09-02T23:41:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=3097"},"modified":"2016-01-22T23:25:34","modified_gmt":"2016-01-22T23:25:34","slug":"native-guard-poems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=3097","title":{"rendered":"Native Guard: Poems"},"content":{"rendered":"

Native Guard: Poems<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Mariner Books an Imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt<\/a>
\n2007-04-03
\n64 pages
\nTrim Size: 5.50 x 8.25
\nPaperback ISBN-13\/EAN: 9780618872657; ISBN-10: 0618872655<\/p>\n

Natasha Trethewey<\/a><\/strong>, Charles Howard Candler Professor of English and Creative Writing
\nEmory University<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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<\/a>\u2014where one of the first black regiments, the Louisiana Native Guards<\/a>, was called into service during the Civil War<\/a>. Trethewey’s resonant and beguiling collection is a haunting conversation between personal experience and national history.<\/p>\n

Excerpt:<\/p>\n

Miscegenation<\/strong><\/p>\n

In 1965 my parents broke two laws of Mississippi;
\nthey went to Ohio to marry, returned to Mississippi.<\/p>\n

They crossed the river into Cincinnati, a city whose name
\nbegins with a sound like sin<\/em>, the sound of wrong – mis<\/em> in Mississippi.<\/p>\n

A year later they moved to Canada, followed a route the same
\nas slaves, the train slicing the white glaze of winter, leaving Mississippi.<\/p>\n

Faulkner’s Joe Christmas was born in winter, like Jesus, given his name
\nfor the day he was left at the orphanage, his race unknown in Mississippi.<\/p>\n

My father was reading War and Peace<\/em> when he gave me my name.
\nI was born near Easter, 1966, in Mississippi.<\/p>\n

When I turned 33 my father said, It’s your Jesus year – you’re the same
\nage he was when he died<\/em>. It was spring, the hills green in Mississippi.<\/p>\n

I know more than Joe Christmas did. Natasha is a Russian name –
\nthough I’m not; it means Christmas child<\/em>, even in Mississippi.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Native Guard: Poems Mariner Books an Imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2007-04-03 64 pages Trim Size: 5.50 x 8.25 Paperback ISBN-13\/EAN: 9780618872657; ISBN-10: 0618872655 Natasha Trethewey, Charles Howard Candler Professor of English and Creative Writing Emory University Winner of the Pulitzer Prize Through elegiac verse that honors her mother and tells of her own fraught […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[395,11,459,8,1617,20],"tags":[1135,1136,1134,1133],"class_list":["post-3097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autobiography","category-books","category-history","category-media-archive","category-poetry-books","category-usa","tag-houghton-mifflin-harcourt","tag-louisiana-native-guards","tag-mariner-books","tag-natasha-trethewey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3097"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45291,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3097\/revisions\/45291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}