Turn Me Loose - The Unghosting of Medgar Evers

Informationen zum Autor FRANK W WALKER is the 2013-2014 poet laureate of Kentucky. He is an associate professor of English at the University of Kentucky and the editor of Pluck! The Journal of Affrilachian Arts & Culture . A Lannan Literary Fellowship for Poetry recipient, he is the author of five collections of poetry, including Buffalo Dance: The Journey of York , which won the Lillian Smith Book Award, and Isaac Murphy: I Dedicate This Ride . Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. They accumulate facets of the love and hate with which others saw this man, unghosting him in a way that only imagination makes possible.

Product details

• Authors: Frank Walker, Frank X Walker, Frank X. Walker
• Publisher: The University of Georgia Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.05.2013
• EAN: 9780820345413
• ISBN: 978-0-8203-4541-3
• No. of pages: 96
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Bezug zu Afro-Amerikanern, Poetry, POETRY / American / African American