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Item specifics
- Condition
- Subject
- Poetry
- ISBN
- 9780820345413
- Book Title
- Turn Me Loose : the Unghosting of Medgar Evers
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Item Length
- 8.5 in
- Publication Year
- 2013
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.4 in
- Genre
- Poetry
- Topic
- American / African American, General
- Item Weight
- 23.5 Oz
- Item Width
- 5.5 in
- Number of Pages
- 96 Pages
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Publisher
University of Georgia Press
ISBN-10
0820345415
ISBN-13
9780820345413
eBay Product ID (ePID)
150512814
Product Key Features
Book Title
Turn Me Loose : the Unghosting of Medgar Evers
Number of Pages
96 Pages
Language
English
Topic
American / African American, General
Publication Year
2013
Genre
Poetry
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.4 in
Item Weight
23.5 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
5.5 in
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Reviews
"Searing, brilliantly realized, these forty-nine poems exhume the history of a great American hero, Medgar Evers, whose 1963 death at the hands of white supremacist Byron De La Beckwith lit a powder keg of racial unrest in the nation and ushered in a decade of political assassinations. With their deep links to African American poetic traditions of social commentary and historical excavation, Walker's poems summon ghosts of the southern past to probe the daily horror of dehumanization under the reign of Jim Crow and the terrifying psychological roots of white supremacism, past and present."--Minrose Gwin, author of Remembering Medgar Evers: Writing the Long Civil Rights Movement and The Queen of Palmyra, "Having labored in the world of the arts and in particular in the vineyards of poetry over the last fifty years, I am seldom surprised, moved or excited about the many voices-new and experienced-who occupy our rather fragile and inclusive world. Frank X Walker is an exception. His unusually perceptive and original voice commands a seat at the table. That which separates most poets is their use of language and their ability to creatively keep us reading and listening to their concept of the world we all love, live, and fight in. Read this poet."-Haki R. Madhubuti, author of Honoring Genius: Gwendolyn Brooks-The Narrative of Craft, Art, Kindness, and Justice, "In this sixth collection of his poems, Frank X Walker again demonstrates his artistry in giving voice to the marginalized and/or forgotten . . . Turn Me Loose explores the racial conflict of the 1950s and 1960s in [Mississippi], as well as in the wider South, reminding readers of a past that is all too recent, a past that must be acknowledged if our country is to achieve what Walker's Introduction calls 'the healing and reconciliation still needed in America' (xxiv)." --John Lang, Appalachian Journal, "Walker's ability to create a human voice of inhumanity--and to place it alongside other voices that struggle to remain human in the face of such devastation--revitalizes our history at a time when too many want us to live as though it were merely a thing of the past." --Jonathan Farmer, Slate Book Review, "Searing, brilliantly realized, these forty-nine poems exhume the history of a great American hero, Medgar Evers, whose 1963 death at the hands of white supremacist Byron De La Beckwith lit a powder keg of racial unrest in the nation and ushered in a decade of political assassinations. With their deep links to African American poetic traditions of social commentary and historical excavation, Walker's poems summon ghosts of the southern past to probe the daily horror of dehumanization under the reign of Jim Crow and the terrifying psychological roots of white supremacism, past and present."-Minrose Gwin, author of Remembering Medgar Evers: Writing the Long Civil Rights Movement and The Queen of Palmyra, "Having labored in the world of the arts and in particular in the vineyards of poetry over the last fifty years, I am seldom surprised, moved or excited about the many voices-new and experienced-who occupy our rather fragile and inclusive world. Frank X Walker is an exception. His unusually perceptive and original voice commands a seat at the table. That which separates most poets is their use of language and their ability to creatively keep us reading and listening to their concept of the world we all love, live, and fight in. Read this poet."--Haki R. Madhubuti, author of Honoring Genius: Gwendolyn Brooks--The Narrative of Craft, Art, Kindness, and Justice
Synopsis
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. They accumulate facets of the love and hate with which others saw this man, unghosting him in a way that only imagination makes possible., 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 De La Beckwith's two wives. Except for the book's title,"Turn me loose," which were his final words, Evers remains in this collection silent. Yet the poems accumulate facets of the love and hate with which others saw this man, unghosting him in a way that only imagination makes possible.
LC Classification Number
PS3623.A359T87 2013
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