When Winter Come - The Ascension of York

Informationen zum Autor Frank X Walker, the first African American writer to be named Kentucky Poet Laureate, is an artist, writer, educator, and has published eleven collections of poetry, including Masked Man, Black: Pandemic & Protest Poems, Turn Me Loose: The Unghosting of Medgar Evers, which was awarded an NAACP Image Award and the Black Caucus American Library Association Honor Award. He is also the author of the forthcoming A is for Affrilachia. The recipient of the 35th Annual Lillian Smith Book Award and the Thomas D. Clark Award for Literary Excellence, he is a founding member of the Affrilachian Poets. Klappentext York ascends out of his chains, out of oblivion, and into flight. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Frank X Walker, Frank X. Walker
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.02.2008
• EAN: 9780813124834
• ISBN: 978-0-8131-2483-4
• No. of pages: 136
• Dimensions: 146 mm x 222 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Kentucky Voices (Hardcover); Kentucky Voices (Hardcover); Kentucky Voices
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Bezug zu Afro-Amerikanern, Poetry, POETRY / American / African American