Winner of the 2007 pulitzer prize for poetry, natasha tretheweys elegiac native guard is a deeply personal volume that brings together. It is deeply focused on the racial legacy of americas deep south, particularly on the unreliability and mutability of memory. Winner of the 2007 pulitzer prize for poetry, natasha trethewey s elegiac native guard is a deeply personal volume that brings together two legacies of the deep south. Winner of the 2007 pulitzer prize for poetry, natasha tretheweys elegiac native. Native guard is a 2006 book of poetry by american author and former united states poet laureate natasha trethewey.
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