How Long to Read Native Guard (enhanced Audio Edition)

How Long Does it Take to Read Native Guard (enhanced Audio Edition)?

It takes the average reader 1 hour and 5 minutes to read Native Guard (enhanced Audio Edition) by Natasha Trethewey

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Included in this audio-enhanced edition are recordings of the U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey reading Native Guard in its entirety, as well as an interview with the poet from the HMH podcast The Poetic Voice, in which she recounts what it was like to grow up in the South as the daughter of a white father and a black mother and describes other influences that inspired the work. Experience this Pulitzer Prize–winning collection in an engaging new way. Growing up in the Deep South, Natasha Trethewey was never told that in her hometown of Gulfport, Mississippi, black soldiers had played a pivotal role in the Civil War. Off the coast, on Ship Island, stood a fort that had once been a Union prison housing Confederate captives. Protecting the fort was the second regiment of the Louisiana Native Guards -- one of the Union's first official black units. Trethewey's new book of poems pays homage to the soldiers who served and whose voices have echoed through her own life. The title poem imagines the life of a former slave stationed at the fort, who is charged with writing letters home for the illiterate or invalid POWs and his fellow soldiers. Just as he becomes the guard of Ship Island's memory, so Trethewey recalls her own childhood as the daughter of a black woman and a white man. Her parents' marriage was still illegal in 1966 Mississippi. The racial legacy of the Civil War echoes through elegiac poems that honor her own mother and the forgotten history of her native South. Native Guard is haunted by the intersection of national and personal experience.

How long is Native Guard (enhanced Audio Edition)?

Native Guard (enhanced Audio Edition) by Natasha Trethewey is 64 pages long, and a total of 16,256 words.

This makes it 22% the length of the average book. It also has 20% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Native Guard (enhanced Audio Edition) Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 1 hour and 28 minutes to read Native Guard (enhanced Audio Edition) aloud.

What Reading Level is Native Guard (enhanced Audio Edition)?

Native Guard (enhanced Audio Edition) is suitable for students ages 8 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

When deciding what to show young students always use your best judgement and consult a professional.

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