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.

• Item Weight:3.36 ounces
• Paperback:51 pages
• ISBN-10:0618872655
• ISBN-13:978-0618872657
• Dimensions:5.5 x 0.26 x 8.25 inches
• Reading level:14 and up
• Publisher:Mariner Books (April 3, 2007)
• Language:English