Description:
A stirring and historically substantive tribute to literal freedom fighters that provides inspiration and instruction for all who believe in liberation in illiberal times. --Cortney Lamar Charleston
Southern Review of Books - The Best Southern Books of October 2024
Winner of the 2025 PEN/Voelcker Award for a Poetry Collection
Brief description: 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.
Review Quotes: 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"