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26 produkter
Southern Poetry Anthology, Volume III: Contemporary Appalachia Volume 3
Contemporary Appalachia
Av Gilbert Allen, Maggie Anderson m. fl.
Häftad, 2025
382 kr
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“The Southern Poetry Anthology, Volume III, second edition, edited with passion and precision, in collaboration with Texas Review Press, transcends the stereotypes surrounding Appalachia, revealing the true diversity and complexity of Appalachia’s poetic voices. Commitment to showcasing the rich …
Buffalo Dance
The Journey of York
E-bok, 2010
854 kr
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" 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 & …
Buffalo Dance
The Journey of York
E-bok, 2010
854 kr
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" 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 & …
When Winter Come
The Ascension of York
E-bok, 2008
316 kr
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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 …
When Winter Come
The Ascension of York
E-bok, 2008
344 kr
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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 …
When Winter Come
The Ascension of York
Häftad, 2008
276 kr
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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. Grounded in the history of the famous trip, Walker's vibrant account allows York -- little more than a …
Is for Affrilachia
Av Frank X Walker, Ronald W Davis
Inbunden, 2023
279 kr
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The people and places in Appalachia are as rich, multifaceted, and diverse as the region itself. When author Frank X Walker first coined the phrase "Affrilachia," he wanted to ensure that the voices, and accomplishments of African Americans in that region were recognized and exalted. A is for …
Turn Me Loose
The Unghosting of Medgar Evers
Häftad, 2013
317 kr
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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 …
Turn Me Loose
The Unghosting of Medgar Evers
E-bok, 2013
386 kr
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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 …
Turn Me Loose
The Unghosting of Medgar Evers
E-bok, 2013
343 kr
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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 …
Affrilachia
Poems
Häftad, 2020
250 kr
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A milestone book of poetry at the intersection of Appalachian and African American literature. In this pathbreaking debut collection, poet Frank X Walker tells the story of growing up young, Black, artistic, and male in one of America's most misunderstood geographical regions. As a proud Kentucky …
Load in Nine Times
Poems
Inbunden, 2024
301 kr
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For decades, Frank X Walker has reclaimed essential American lives through his path-breaking historical poetry: from Medgar Evers in Turn Me Loose, winner of the NAACP Award; to York, the enslaved explorer who joined the Lewis and Clark expedition, in Buffalo Dance, winner of the Lillian Smith Book …
Load in Nine Times
Poems
Häftad, 2026
196 kr
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For decades Frank X. Walker has reclaimed essential American lives through his pathbreaking historical poetry. Moving chronologically from antebellum Kentucky through Reconstruction, here he braids the voices of the United States Coloured Troops with their family members, as well as slave owners …
Black Box
Poems
E-bok, 2021
398 kr
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A powerful collection from Frank X Walker, winner of the 2005 Lannan Literary Fellowship for Poetry. In this collection of sixty-eight poems, Kentucky writer Frank X Walker continues the personal poetic writing of his bestselling debut collection, Affrilachia. In Black Box, he expertly melds …
Isaac Murphy
I Dedicate This Ride
E-bok, 2021
398 kr
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The captivating story of a record-setting nineteenth-century black jockey told in poetry. In this creative foray into persona poems, Walker immerses himself in the life of African American jockey Isaac Burns Murphy (1861–1896). The son of a slave, Murphy’s legendary career riveted the attention of …
Affrilachia
Poems
E-bok, 2022
398 kr
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A milestone book of poetry at the intersection of Appalachian and African American literature.In this pathbreaking debut collection, poet Frank X Walker tells the story of growing up young, Black, artistic, and male in one of America's most misunderstood geographical regions. As a proud Kentucky …
Masked Man, Black
E-bok, 2020
244 kr
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"We all wear masks. There are people with whom we can take our masks off and speak from the heart. Professor Walker is an expert in masks, or personas. And he well knows that sometimes masks let us speak deep truths about the world. He also knows masks sometimes protect us, sometimes keep us from …
About Flight
E-bok, 2015
188 kr
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"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 …
Last Will, Last Testament
E-bok, 2019
244 kr
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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 …
