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: 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