Load in Nine Times: Poems

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Price
$26.99  $25.10
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation
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Pages
144
Dimensions
5.7 X 8.3 X 0.8 inches | 0.6 pounds
Language
English
Type
Hardcover
EAN/UPC
9781324094937

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About the Author
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.
Reviews
In Frank X Walker's expert hands, history unfolds like a great epic, somehow sweeping and large while simultaneously tender, intimate in its looking. What an honor to be a poet, a reader, in a world made more vivid and possible by Frank X Walker's poems.--Safia Elhillo, author of Girls That Never Die
Frank X Walker's Load in Nine Times builds a powerful monument to those who served and were not recognized. . . . The language strikes the reader's senses like a flame to a fuse and Walker shows us just why the stories of these brave and enduring souls are still seared into the landscape. This is seismic and significant work.--Oliver de la Paz, author of The Diaspora Sonnets
As regressive politicians resurrect lost causes in the public sphere, Frank X Walker boldly brings the truth back to life in Black ink. . . . These evocative poems remind us that . . . we still have every right to dream: a right all should have by birth alone but is enshrined by the blood shed to make it so.--Cortney Lamar Charleston, author of Doppelgangbanger
A fired-up return to Frank X Walker's signature soulful verse portraits of historical figures from Harriet Tubman to Black soldiers who fought for the Union. . . . Even amid such destruction, Walker praises Black people's beauty and innovation, the creation of culture and identity amid and beyond war and oppression. As a soldier says: 'some of us was already free.'--Khadijah Queen, author of Anodyne
Walker's excellent 12th collection (after Love House) captures the Black experience before and after emancipation in intimate and expansive poems.... Throughout, Walker draws on the emotional and psychological dimensions of poetry to transform slavery from historical fact to lived experience.... These vivid and evocative poems underscore the struggles Black people have faced while offering beautifully crafted, illuminating reflections on those experiences.-- "Publishers Weekly"