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The Washington Post reviews Natasha Trethewey’s Native Guard : Poems.

In Native Guard, Trethewey traces the buried history of the South to the point where her personal narrative begins. “In 1965, my parents broke two laws of Mississippi;/they went to Ohio to marry, returned to Mississippi,” begins a ghazal (a poem in two-line stanzas linked by a rhyme scheme) titled “Miscegenation.” “My Mother Dreams of Another Country” jumps ahead to Trethewey’s birth year and depicts her mother’s distress: “This is 1966 — she is married to a white man –/and there are more names for what grows inside her./It is enough to worry about words like mongrel /and the infertility of mules and mulattoes .”