*Starred Review* Trethewey's exacting and resonant poetry is rooted in the shadow side of American history.
I'll limit my review to what I liked the least: The book is too short. The narrator compares his life in bondage to his life as a military officer, guarding the fallen rebels: I now use ink to keep record, a closed book, not the lure of memory -- flawed, changeful -- that dulls the lash for the master, sharpens it for the slave.
There was a problem loading your book clubs. Reviewed in the United States on January 14, 2019. Reviewed in the United States on March 8, 2020. Poet Laureate and is the Charles Howard Candler Professor of English and Creative Writing at Emory University. The circular form mirrors the bizarre circularity of circumstance that finds the narrator -- once a slave -- now guarding Confederates who have been captured and imprisoned inside the Union fort at Ship Island, Miss.
I feel that ... Consulter l'avis complet, It's hard to know what to say about a great book of poetry.
Reviewed in the United States on February 8, 2018, Beautiful poems read several times before seeing production of "Native Guard', Reviewed in the United States on July 2, 2018. Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations, Select the department you want to search in. Though this is her third book, Trethewey is still perfecting her voice and may have only scratched the surface of her remarkable talent. Trethewey gives her narrator a literary voice -- the voice of a 19th-century writer practiced in the diction and oratory of his time, of Frederick Douglass's masterful autobiographies, a voice that echoes the rhythms of great Western poetry. Simply beautiful. Only 50 pages, it's more like a pamphlet than a book. Please try again. Trethewey has a gift for squeezing the contradictions of the South into very tightly controlled lines.
The verse is grounded in her experiences growing up in Mississippi and the memory of her mother. -- Book World The Washington Post, "[Native Guard] consistently presents Trethewey's belief that history is layered, full of bones and ghosts, and that the poet's job is to penetrate and expose." For the slave, having a master sharpens the bend into work, the way the sergeant moves us now to perfect battalion drill, dress parade. 64, Price: Just as he becomes the guard of Ship Island's memory, so Trethewey recalls her own childhood as the daughter of a black woman and a white man.
She said she wrote it to come to terms with the deathj of her mother.
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