Elegy for the Native Guards

Abstract

Poet Natasha Trethewey presents her "Elegy for the Native Guards," April 9, 2005, on Ship Island, Mississippi. Trethewey is the author of Domestic Work (2000) and Bellocq's Ophelia (2002). Her upcoming Native Guard will be published in 2006. Trethewey's poem "Theories of Time and Space" is also available on Southern Spaces.

Keywords

• African American Studies
• Memory and Memorial Cultures
• Poetry
• @Emory
• African American Art