Load in Nine Times (eBook)

Poems

Frank X. Walker (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2024
144 Seiten
Liveright (Verlag)
9781324094944 (ISBN)

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A stirring and historically substantive tribute to literal freedom fighters that provides inspiration and instruction for all who believe in liberation in illiberal times. Cortney Lamar CharlestonSouthern Review of Books The Best Southern Books of October 2024Winner of the 2025 PEN/Voelcker Award for a Poetry CollectionFor decades Frank X Walker has reclaimed essential American lives through his pathbreaking historical poetry. In this stirring new collection, he reimagines the experiences of Black Civil War soldiersincluding his own ancestorswho enlisted in the Union army in exchange for emancipation.Moving chronologically from antebellum Kentucky through Reconstruction, Walker braids the voices of the United States Colored Troops with their family members, as well as slave owners and prominent historical figures from Abraham Lincoln to Frederick Douglas and Margaret Garner. Imbued with atmospheric imagery, these persona poems and more [clarify] not only the inextricable value of Black life and labor to the building of America, but the terrible price they were forced to pay in producing that labor (Khadijah Queen). How do you un-orphan a people? Walker asks. How do you pick up / shattered black porcelain and make / a new set of dishes fit to eat off?While carefully attuned to the heartbreak and horrors of war, Walkers poems pay equal care to the pride, perseverance, and triumphs of their speakers. Evoking the formerly enslaved General Charles Young, Walker hums: I am Americas promise, my mothers song, / and the reason my father had every right to dream. Expansive and intimate, Load in Nine Times is a resounding ode to the powerful ties of individual and cultural ancestry by an indelible voice in American poetry.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.10.2024
• Zusatzinfo: 3 illustrations
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: Affrilachia • black appalachia • black civil war soldier • black poet • combat • Confederacy • Emancipation • Family • historical poem • Kentucky • Military • naacp award • Slavery • soldier • Union • US Civil War • war poem
• ISBN-13: 9781324094944 / 9781324094944