A review by waytoomanybooks
Native Guard by Natasha Trethewey

emotional informative reflective sad fast-paced

4.0

Trethewey's short collection of poems weaves the author’s upbringing as a mixed race child in the American South in the 1960s and 1970s with that of poems based on histories of Black Americans and Black American soldiers during the American Civil War. Like all her work, it is vivid, poignant, and concise.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation, Death, Racism, Grief, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Classism, Death of parent, Violence, War, Domestic abuse, and Emotional abuse