A review by raloveridge
Native Guard by Natasha Trethewey

5.0

Oh my gosh, is this ever brilliant. I feel like this is going to be TREMENDOUSLY important to my comprehensive exams because the work she's doing with form to resurrect all of the complications, elations, and historical tragedies of Trethewey's Mississippi is right up my alley. Amazing book, amazing poet. Broke my heart.

"Even now,
the mound is a blister on my heart,
a red and humming swarm."