Buffalo Dance (eBook)

The Journey of York

Frank X Walker (Autor)

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2022 | 2., expanded edition
112 Seiten
The University Press of Kentucky (Verlag)
978-0-8131-9647-3 (ISBN)

Infos

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 York, who was enslaved to Clark and became the first African American man to traverse the continent. The fictionalized poems in Buffalo Dance form a narrative of York's inner journey before, during, and after the expeditiona journey from slavery to freedom, from the plantation to the great Northwest, from servant to soul yearning to be free.In this expanded edition, Walker utilizes 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 historical essay, preface, and sixteen additional poems, this powerful work speaks to such themes as racism, the power of literacy, the inhumanity of slavery, and the crimes against Native Americans, while reawakening and reclaiming the lost "e;voice"e; of York.

Autor

Frank X Walker, the first African American writer to be named Kentucky Poet Laureate, is an artist and educator. He has published eleven collections of poetry, including Masked Man, Black: Pandemic & Protest Poems and Turn Me Loose: The Unghosting of Medgar Evers, which received an NAACP Image Award and the Black Caucus of the American Library Association Honor Book Award. The recipient of the Thomas D. Clark Award for Literary Excellence, he is a founding member of the Affrilachian Poets.

Inhalt

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

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.11.2022
• Reihe/Serie: Kentucky Voices
• Reihe/Serie: Kentucky Voices
• Verlagsort: Lexington
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 140 x 140 mm
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
• Schlagworte: Black History • caroline county • Chautauqua • corps of discovery • descendants • Dreams • ed hamilton • Environment • gamma wave films • hasan davis • journals • Louisiana Purchase • Louisville • Sacagawea • St. Louis • Thomas Jefferson • Tribes • Virginia • Visions
• ISBN-10: 0-8131-9647-7 / 0813196477
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8131-9647-3 / 9780813196473