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Through elegiac verse that honors her mother and tells of her own fraught childhood, Natasha Trethewey confronts the racial legacy of her native Deep South -- where one of the first black regiments, the Louisiana Native Guards, was called into...(more) service during the Civil War. Trethewey's resonant and beguiling collection is a haunting conversation between personal experience and national history.(less)