About this title: Growing up in the Deep South, Natasha Trethewey was never told that in her hometown of Gulfport, Mississippi, black soldiers had played a pivotal role in the Civil War. Off the coast, on Ship Island, stood a fort that had once been a Union prison housing Confederate captives. Protecting the fort was the second regiment of the Louisiana Native ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Date Published: 2006-03-06
ISBN-13:9780618604630ISBN:0618604634
Description: Very Good. Great title in good condition. Pages are clean, crisp, and tight. DJ shows some light shelf wear. Satisfaction guaranteed. If item not as described, return for refund of purchase price. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Mariner Books
Date Published: 2007-04-03
ISBN-13:9780618872657ISBN:0618872655
Description: Like New. May be shiny, in some instances dust jackets are not included, no missing pages, no damage to binding, may have a remainder mark. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Mariner Books
Date Published: 2007-04-03
ISBN-13:9780618872657ISBN:0618872655
Description: Very good. Very minimal damage to the cover (no holes or tears, only minimal scuff marks), in some instances dust jackets are not included, no missing pages, minimal to no highlighting/under. read more
Description: Fine. 0618872655 NEVER USED! This book has never been read. There are no highlights, No pen marks, No missing pages. The binding is sturdy. This book may have slight shelf wear. Tracking information provided for all orders. Orders over $49.99 will receive an upgrade from standard to priority mail. Customer satisfaction guaranteed! ! read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Mariner Books
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780618872657ISBN:0618872655
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Mariner Books
Date Published: 2007-04-03
ISBN-13:9780618872657ISBN:0618872655
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Date Published: 2007-11-06
ISBN-13:9780547055480ISBN:054705548X
Description: NEW. Hardcover. From an inventory that is 100% brand-new, 100% direct from the publishers' distribution channel. We carry NO pre-owned, NO remaindered. We pack in CARDBOARD to ensure the pristine quality is maintained. (Bubble-wrap alone is NOT sufficient to protect from USPS equipment. ) Guaranteed brand-NEW, protected with CARDBOARD, your satisfaction is guaranteed. BKLUVID: 9780547055480. read more
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin, New York
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780618604630ISBN:0618604634
Description: Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket. 0618604634. Very small bumps at head/foot of spine, very slight lean at lower spine, and light scuff at back board. DJ has very small creases at head/foot of spine.; A very nice, tight, unread copy of the 2007 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in FIrst State dust jacket (no mention of Pulitzer Prize). No post-Pulitzer CD at back, either.; #AA481. read more
"I really like the forms that Trethewey uses in her poetry. She isn't afraid to use rhyme and repetition along with her mainly free verse poems. Her subject matter is about her identity--her race, her heritage, her upbringing in the South. Some of these poems explore the Native Guard, a group of black soldiers from the South who fought on the North's side of the Civil War. This book is confessional and historical. I want to read more of her poetry."
"Do you know what I hate? I mean besides mayonnaise? I hate jazz "best-of's." Some record exec. will cobble together 13 of Coltrane's "greatest" hits and sell it at Target. You pop it in your car and bop around like you're hip. The tracks move from Blue Train to Pursuance and leave you wondering why Coltrane got all weird. Well, you're not hip, you're a sucker. Sure, the tracks are good. But, listen to them along with the rest of their sibling tracks on the original album and suddenly, their GREAT. Jazz artists develop concepts and moods for albums; each one reveals something about that artist at the time and place it was written. The tracks work together to create an experience. Trethewey's poems are the same. Granted, most poetry collections try to achieve uniform themes, but she nails it. She really nails it. The poems are co-dependent, they build and explore common themes. Her poems are good, but the collection is great. She has really changed the way I think about the South and how I look at the only picture in my library, a reproduction of 'Veteran in a New Field' by Winslow Homer."
"Interesting poems - I felt they were a little generic (all about her mom) until a closer reading showed more of her sentiment towards her life. A very interesting look at the relationship she felt for a women she seems to have seen as weak. An interesting way to memorialize your mother."
"This collection was really interesting in the fact that Trethewey is remembering things that are lost- her mother as well as certain people in history (particularly the civil war). Powerful images and well structured."
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