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64 pages • first pub 2006 (view editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780547526263
Format: Digital
Language: English
Publisher: Mariner Books
Edition Pub Date: 01 March 2006
Description
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 recal...
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64 pages • first pub 2006 (view editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780547526263
Format: Digital
Language: English
Publisher: Mariner Books
Edition Pub Date: 01 March 2006
Description
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 recal...