Buffalo Dance

The Journey of York

Frank X Walker (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

112 Seiten

2023
The University Press of Kentucky (Verlag)
978-0-8131-9644-2 (ISBN)

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When Frank X Walker's compelling collection of personal poems was first released in 2004, it told the story of the infamous Lewis and Clark Expedition from the point of view of Clark's personal slave, York. The fictionalized poems in Buffalo Dance formed a narrative of York's inner and outer journey, before, during, and after the expedition – a journey from slavery to freedom, from the plantation to the great northwest, from servant to soul yearning to be free.

In this updated edition, Walker utilizes a blend of extensive historical research, interviews, transcribed oral histories from the Nez Perce reservation, art, and empathy to breathe new life into an important but overlooked historical figure. Featuring a new introduction, preface, and sixteen additional poems, this powerful work speaks to such topics as race, literacy, slavery, and Native Americans, while reawakening and reclaiming the lost "voice" of York.

Frank X Walker is the author of Black Box, Buffalo Dance: The Journey of York, and Affrilachia. The recipient of a 2005 Lannan Literary Fellowship, the Lillian Smith Book Award, and the Thomas D. Clark Award for Literary Excellence, Walker is Writer-in-Residence at Northern Kentucky University.

Introduction

Preface

Acknowledgments

Wind Talker

Falls of the Ohio

To Protect and Serve

Work Ethic

God's House

Primer

At Ease

Sundays and Christmas

Lie of Omission

Calendar

Her Current

Medicine Men

Spirit Mound

Wasicum Sapa

Winter Leaf

Buffalo Dance

A House is Not a Home

No Offense

Leading Men

Domestique

Work Song

A Rock, a Fort, a Island

Not the Only One

Perfume

Black Magic

Sandstone Thighs

Mouths and Waters

Home, Home on the Range

The Portage

Sun Son

Double Yolks

Ornithologists

Nigrathologists

Swap Meet

Promises

Nomenclature

Respect House

Prosperity

...Another Man's Treasure

Vision Quest

Vision Quest II

Ananse

Mythology

Traveling Men

Earth Tones

Sweat Lodge

Doubt

Cold Hearted

Inhumane

Cure for Homesickness

Sad Eye

Aurora Borealis

Electorate

Winter with Jonah

Majesty

Pomp's Tower

The Little Sneeze

York Haichu

Private Lessons

Pastry Chefs

Solid Black

Pure White

Unravel

Revisionist History

Monticello

Souvenir

Just Rewards

A Love Supreme

Night Breaks, Freedom too

Holy Water

Ursa Major

Cumulonimbus

Birth Day

About the Author

Erscheinungsdatum	08.11.2022
Verlagsort	Lexington
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
ISBN-10	0-8131-9644-2 / 0813196442
ISBN-13	978-0-8131-9644-2 / 9780813196442
Zustand	Neuware