From the Publisher
"Trethewey serves our profound need for that rare thingartistically fine Civil War poetry...She is our Native Guard."David Madden, author of Sharpshooter
"The graceful form conceals a gritty subject...Trethewey has a gift for squeezing the contradictions of the South into very tightly controlled lines."Book World The Washington Post
"[Native Guard] consistently presents Trethewey's belief that history is layered, full of bones and ghosts, and that the poet's job is to penetrate and expose." St. Louis Post-Dispatch
"Trethewey is sure-handed in her use of language and fearless in confronting her own personal issues." The Advocate
"A moving testimony." Atlanta Journal Constitution
"Elegiac...eloquently told...profoundly moving...Trethewey is clearly a poet to savor."Maxine Kumin
"In a very few years Natasha Trethewey has created a small body of nearly flawless poetry."Rodney Jones
"[Natasha Tretheway’s] voice is a rare, beautiful gift to the reader."William Ferris, Joel R. Williamson Eminent Professor of History, UNC Chapel Hill