Affrilachia : Poems by Frank X Walker

by Walker, Frank X.

• ISBN13: 9780967542409
• ISBN10: 0967542405
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-03-01
• Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS

Summary

"This personal poetic narrative is a historic valuable offering . . . an eagle's-eye view into what it means to be young, Black, artistic, and male in Appalachia, as one century comes to an end and another begins."-- Nikky Finney, author of "Rice."

Author Biography

Frank X Walker is the author of three poetry collections: Black Box (Old Cove Press, 2005); Buffalo Dance: the Journey of York (University of Kentucky Press, 2003), which won the Lillian Smith Book Award in 2004; and Affrilachia (Old Cove Press, 2000). A 2005 recipient of the Lannan Literary Fellowship in Poetry, Walker serves as a Visting Professor of Writing, Rhetoric and Communication at Transylvania University and the publisher of PLUCK! Journal of Affrilachian Art & Culture, due out in spring 2007.

Table of Contents

Clifton I	p. 3
Wishbone	p. 7
Statues of Liberty	p. 10
Matriarch	p. 13
Cease Fire	p. 15
Rock Star	p. 17
Crooked Afro	p. 19
Hummingbird	p. 22
Death by Basketball	p. 24
Neapolitan	p. 27
Cp Time	p. 29
Lil' Kings	p. 32
Sweet B	p. 35
Violins or Violen...Ce	p. 37
Taking the Stares	p. 43
Million Man March	p. 46
The Harvest	p. 48
Dogon	p. 51
Healer	p. 53
Fireproof	p. 56
Amazin' Grace	p. 59
A Wake	p. 62
Red-Handed	p. 65
Poetry Moments	p. 68
Diamond Seed	p. 70
In Hell Exhale	p. 72
Mermaid	p. 74
Stop Looking and Listen	p. 76
My Boy D'	p. 79
Nikki	p. 81
Ed Works	p. 82
Jibaros	p. 84
Sara Yevo	p. 87
Indiana	p. 90
Affrilachia	p. 92
Breakfast in Hazard	p. 94
Kentucke	p. 95
Clifton H	p. 98
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