Download Native Guard Poems Background. Her powerful title poem native guard begins with a quote from frederick douglass. Poems by natasha trethewey paperback $9.99.
Trethewey's poem native guard is taken from her collection of poems (also called native guard') published in 2007.
It's a strange alchemy that changes a proud nation of blackhawks into a merchandising bonanza of hometown hockey shirts, making the native. Poems of discovery, inspiration, independence, and everything else (a poetry speaks experience). Many of the poems in native guard pay loving tribute to her mother, whose marriage to a white man was illegal in her native mississippi in the 1960s. Years after her mother's tragic death.