Isaac Murphy - I Dedicate This Ride

A new collection of persona poems from award-winning poet Frank X Walker that tell the untold story of legendary African American jockey Isaac Burns Murphy (1861-1896).

About the author

Frank X Walker is a native of Danville, Kentucky, and professor of English at the University of Kentucky. A former Kentucky poet laureate, he is founding member of the Affrilachian Poets. Walker created the word Affrilachia to help make visible the Black experience in the Appalachian South. He is the author of many poetry volumes, including Affrilachia, Buffalo Dance: The Journey of York, Black Box: Poems, When Winter Come: The Ascension of York, and Isaac Murphy: I Dedicate This Ride.

Product details

• Authors: Frank X Walker, Frank X. Walker
• Publisher: University of ohio press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2020
• EAN: 9780967542430
• ISBN: 978-0-9675424-3-0
• No. of pages: 88
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies