"A . . . personal . . . memoir of a daughter reckoning with the brutal murder of her mother at the hands of her former stepfather, and the moving, intimate story of a poet coming into her own in the wake of a tragedy"--Dust jacket.
A collection of poems that pays tribute to the history of the American South and to the Native Guard, one of the first African-American regiments in service during the Civil War.
A collection of poems by Natasha Trethewey which were inspired by the early 1900's photographs of E.J. Bellocq which profile prostitutes in the red-light district of New Orleans.
A collection of poems that pays tribute to the history of the American South and to the Native Guard, one of the first African-American regiments in service during the Civil War.
Collects the author's poems as she reflects on her own interracial ancestry, her estrangement from her father, and their place in the history of race in America.
