Load in Nine Times: Poems - Couverture souple

Walker, Frank X.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1324098503 ISBN 13 : 9781324098508

Editeur : Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2026

Synopsis

In this stirring new collection, Frank X. Walker reimagines the experiences of Black American Civil War soldiers–including his own ancestors–who enlisted in the Union army in exchange for emancipation

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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 and prominent historical figures from Abraham Lincoln to Frederick Douglas and Margaret Garner. “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, Walker’s poems pay equal care to the pride, perseverance and triumphs of their speakers. Evoking the formerly enslaved General Charles Young, Walker hums: “I am America’s promise, my mother’s 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.

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A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Frank X Walker is the author of twelve poetry collections. He was named the 2013 Kentucky poet laureate and is cofounder of the Affrilachian Poets. He resides in Lexington, Kentucky.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Liveright Publishing Corporation
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1324098503
• ISBN 13: 9781324098508
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 144
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible