Reading Level
What is the reading level of Native Guard: Poems?
Analysing the books in the series, we estimate that the reading level of Native Guard: Poems is 8th and 9th grade.
Expert Readability Tests for
Native Guard: Poems
| Readability Test | Reading Level |
|---|---|
| Flesch Kincaid Scale | Grade 9 |
| SMOG Index | Grade 11 |
| Coleman Liau Index | Grade 11 |
| Dale Chall Readability Score | Grade 7 |
Reading Time
0 hrs 40 mins
How long to read Native Guard: Poems?
The estimated word count of Native Guard: Poems is 9,765 words.
A person reading at the average speed of 250 words/min, will finish the book in 0 hrs 40 mins. At a slower speed of 150 words/min, they will finish it in 1 hrs 6 mins. At a faster speed of 450 words/min, they will finish it in 0 hrs 22 mins.
| Native Guard: Poems - 9,765 words | ||
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| Reading Speed | Time to Read | |
| Slow | 150 words/min | 1 hrs 6 mins |
| Average | 250 words/min | 0 hrs 40 mins |
| Fast | 450 words/min | 0 hrs 22 mins |
- Authors
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Natasha D. Trethewey
More about Native Guard: Poems
9,765 words
Word Count
for Native Guard: Poems
1 hour and 3 minutes
Audiobook length
Description
Winner of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for poetry, Natasha Tretheweys elegiac Native Guard is a deeply personal volume that brings together two legacies of the Deep South.The title of the collection refers to the Mississippi Native Guards, a black regiment whose role in the Civil War has been largely overlooked by history. As a child in Gulfport, Mississippi, in the 1960s, Trethewey could gaze across the water to the fort on Ship Island where Confederate captives once were guarded by black soldiers serving the Union cause. The racial legacy of the South touched Tretheweys life on a much more immediate level, too. Many of the poems in Native Guard pay loving tribute to her mother, whose marriage to a white man was illegal in her native Mississippi in the 1960s. Years after her mothers tragic death, Trethewey reclaims her memory, just as she reclaims the voices of the black soldiers whose service has been all but forgotten.Included in this beautiful new edition of Native Guard is an audio CD of the poems read by the author -- a lovely gift for anyone who loves poetry that speaks to the heart and mind.