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  | | Turn Me Loose(1st Edition) The Unghosting of Medgar Evers von Frank X. Walker, Michelle Hite Paperback, 96 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2013 von University Of Georgia Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-4541-3, ISBN: 0-8203-4541-5 "Around the void left by the murder of Medgar Evers in 1963, the poems in this collection speak, unleashing the strong emotions both before and after the moment of assassination. Poems take on the voices of Evers's widow, Myrlie; his brother, Charles; his assassin, Byron De La Beckwith; and each of De La Beckwith's two wives. Except for the book's title, ""Turn me loose,"" which were his final words, Evers remains in this collection sile ..." |
 | | Black Box(1st Edition) von Frank X. Walker Paperback, 144 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2005 von Old Cove Press ISBN-13: 978-0-9675424-1-6, ISBN: 0-9675424-1-3 "This powerful collection of poems from award-winning poet Frank X Walker continues the autobiograhical, political and literary journey of Affrilachia, his groundbreaking book of poems about growing up black in the Appalachian south (Old Cove Press, 2000). In Black Box he offers the reader 68 new poems -- written with passion, clarity and emotional honesty -- that illuminate experiences of race, love, social justice, family, identity and ..." |
 | | Masked Man, Black Pandemic and Protest Poems von Frank X. Walker 90 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2020 von Accents Publishing, Llc 2020-10 ISBN-13: 978-1-936628-59-9, ISBN: 1-936628-59-7 ""Masked Man, black is the latest poetry collection by by iconic poet Frank X Walker. The poems in this new collection pack the immediacy and gravity of letters from the trenches of a war." |
 | | About Flight von Frank X. Walker Paperback, 30 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2015 von Accents Publishing, Llc ISBN-13: 978-1-936628-36-0, ISBN: 1-936628-36-8 ""Up until this point in American history, no poet has written an honest and believable lament about the crippling effects from the tornado swirl of a crack pipe, how a little rock being melted between thin mesh screen creates pallid smoke: a monster, a slave to the white lady that is cocaine. In About Flight, Frank X Walker gives us the beautiful ugly narrative of a brother who is wrestling with chemical dependency, and losing. The high ..." |
 | | Isaac Murphy(1st Edition) I Dedicate This Ride von Frank X. Walker Paperback, 88 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2010 von Old Cove Press ISBN-13: 978-0-9675424-3-0, ISBN: 0-9675424-3-X "In this richly imagined collection of poems, Frank X Walker brings to life the mind and heart of legendary African-American jockey Isaac Burns Murphy (1861-1896). The son of a slave, Murphy rose to the top of thoroughbred racing in a brilliant career that brought him wealth, honor and international fame. The first to win the Kentucky Derby three times (1884, 1890, 1891), Murphy won an unprecedented 44% of the races he entered. Part of t ..." |
 | | When Winter Come The Ascension of York (Kentucky Voices) von Frank X. Walker Paperback, 136 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2008 von University Press Of Kentucky ISBN-13: 978-0-8131-9184-3, ISBN: 0-8131-9184-X "A sequel to the award-winning Buffalo Dance, Frank X Walker's When Winter Come: The Ascension of York is a dramatic reimagining of Lewis and Clark's legendary exploration of the American West. By focusing on the humanity and struggles of York, Clark's slave, When Winter Come challenges conventional views of the journey's heroes and exposes the deeds, both great and ghastly, of the men behind the myth. Grounded in the history of the famo ..." |
 | | When Winter Come The Ascension of York (Kentucky Voices) von Frank X. Walker Hardcover, 136 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2008 von University Press Of Kentucky ISBN-13: 978-0-8131-2483-4, ISBN: 0-8131-2483-2 "A sequel to the award-winning Buffalo Dance, Frank X Walker's When Winter Come: The Ascension of York is a dramatic reimagining of Lewis and Clark's legendary exploration of the American West. By focusing on the humanity and struggles of York, Clark's slave, When Winter Come challenges conventional views of the journey's heroes and exposes the deeds, both great and ghastly, of the men behind the myth. Grounded in the history of the famo ..." |
 | | Buffalo Dance(2nd Edition) The Journey of York (Kentucky Voices) von Frank X. Walker Paperback, 88 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2004 von University Press Of Kentucky ISBN-13: 978-0-8131-9088-4, ISBN: 0-8131-9088-6 "" Winner of the 35th Annual Lillian Smith Book Award, 2004 A BookSense 76 Spring 2004 Top 10 Poetry Book! Read an excerpt from the book Listen to Frank X Walker reading on NPR's ""This I Believe"" segment of Morning Edition. This collection of persona poems tells the story of the infamous Lewis & Clark expedition from the point of view of Clark's personal slave, York. The poems form a narrative of York's inner and outer journey, before, ..." |
 | | Affrilachia(1st Edition) Poems by Frank X Walker von Frank X. Walker Paperback, 112 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2000 von Old Cove Press ISBN-13: 978-0-9675424-0-9, ISBN: 0-9675424-0-5 "Now in its eighth printing, Frank X Walker's pathbreaking book of poems Affrilachia is a classic of Appalachian and African-American literature. Walker created the word "Affrilachia" to help make visible the experience of African-Americans living in the rural and Appalachian South. The book is widely used in classrooms and is one of the foundational works of the Affrilachian Poets, a community of writers offering fresh ways to think abo ..." |
 | | Love House (Paperback or Softback) von Frank X. Walker Paperback, Veröffentlicht 2023 von Accents Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-961127-03-6, ISBN: 1-961127-03-2 ""In his new book of poems, Love House, Frank X Walker invites his readers in and speaks to them with consummate grace and intimacy about the things that matter most: loving, parenting, aging, living, dying, as well as basketball, birds, ..." |
 | | Last Will, Last Testament von Frank X. Walker Paperback, 74 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2019 von Accents Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-936628-49-0, ISBN: 1-936628-49-X "In his latest collection, Last Will, Last Testament, Frank X Walker turns the same unflinching gaze he's committed to historic figures now towards his own lineage. As these poems bear witness in real time to his father's last breaths even as his new son takes his first, Walker serves again as the linchpin between generations. Ever a master distiller of the heart, Walker presents us with, arguably, his most complex elixir to date, best i ..." |
 | | A Is for Affrilachia von Walker, Frank X, Davis, Ronald W. Hardcover, 64 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2023 von University Press Of Kentucky ISBN-13: 978-0-8131-9637-4, ISBN: 0-8131-9637-X |
 | | Buffalo Dance(expanded edition) The Journey of York (Kentucky Voices) von Walker, Frank X Paperback, 112 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2022 von University Press Of Kentucky ISBN-13: 978-0-8131-9645-9, ISBN: 0-8131-9645-0 |
 | | Buffalo Dance The Journey of York von Frank X. Walker 105 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2022 von University Press Of Kentucky ISBN-13: 978-0-8131-9647-3, ISBN: 0-8131-9647-7 "When Frank X Walker's compelling collection of personal poems was first released in 2004, it told the story of the infamous Lewis and Clark expedition from the point of view of York, who was enslaved to Clark and became the first African ..." |
 | | Black Bone 25 Years of the Affrilachian Poets von Bianca Lynne Spriggs, Jeremy Paden, Frank X. Walker Paperback, 160 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2018 von University Press Of Kentucky ISBN-13: 978-0-8131-7523-2, ISBN: 0-8131-7523-2 "The Appalachian region stretches from Mississippi to New York, encompassing rural areas as well as cities from Birmingham to Pittsburgh. Though Appalachia's people are as diverse as its terrain, few other regions in America are as burdened with stereotypes. Author Frank X Walker coined the term "Affrilachia" to give identity and voice to people of African descent from this region and to highlight Appalachia's multicultural identity. Thi ..." |
 | | Ink Stains & Watermarks(1st Edition) New and Uncollected Poems von Frank X. Walker Paperback, 128 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2017 von Duncan Hill Press ISBN-13: 978-0-9790724-3-7, ISBN: 0-9790724-3-3 ""In every stanza of this evocative and revelatory gospel, the inimitable X teaches us "Something important about holding on, something more about letting go." He leans hard into the fierce, achingly familiar and sometimes fractured realities of the black-lived life, and under his deft touch they unreel as stark cinema-character-driven, rich with sensory, imbibed with their own selfish music and utterly, utterly memorable." -Patricia Smi ..." |
 | | Anthology of Appalachian Writers Volume VI von Frank X. Walker Paperback, Veröffentlicht 2014 von N/A ISBN-13: 978-1-4534-0070-8, ISBN: 1-4534-0070-2 |
 | | Kentucky Voices Ser.(Updated) Buffalo Dance : The Journey of York von Frank X. Walker Digital, 88 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2010 von University Press Of Kentucky ISBN-13: 978-0-8131-2690-6, ISBN: 0-8131-2690-8 "This collection of persona poems tells the story of the infamous Lewis & Clark expedition from the point of view of Clark's personal slave, York." |
 | | Affrilachia(Reprint) Poems (Library Binding) von Frank X. Walker Library, Veröffentlicht 2009 ISBN-13: 978-1-4395-1458-0, ISBN: 1-4395-1458-5 "Affrilachia is Frank X Walker's groundbreaking first collection of poems, now in its fourth printing. Walker created the word "Affrilachia," which recently was included in the New Oxford American Dictionary." |
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