Native Guard - Natasha Trethewey

Category: Adults, Plays & Theater, Poetry
Language: English
Keywords: African American Race

Written by Natasha Trethewey
Read by Thomas Neal Antwon Ghant, January LaVoy, Nicole Banks Long, Tyrone Jackson
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Based on Natasha Trethewey’s collection of poems, The Alliance Theatre’s production of Native Guard is both an elegy to her mother and a journey into Mississippi’s Civil War history. In poetry and song, she reflects on her mother’s passing while contemplating the former slaves who became soldiers in a regiment known as the Native Guard. Trethewey’s work was the winner of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry.

This recording was produced with the generous support of The Poetry Foundation.

Recorded at The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood, in July of 2018.

Length: 1 hr and 3 mins
Release date: 10-12-18