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Black Box: Poems
A powerful collection from Frank X Walker, winner of the 2005 Lannan Literary Fellowship for Poetry. In this collection of sixty-eight poems, Kentucky writer Frank X Walker continues the personal poetic writing of his bestselling debut collection, Affrilachia. In Black Box, he expertly melds autobiography, political commentary, and literary allusions into a devastatingly beautiful journey through the real “Affrilachia”—a word Walker created to render visible the lives of the African Americans who call the rural and Appalachian South home. Written with passion, clarity, and emotional honesty, the poems in Black Box illuminate profound experiences at the intersection of race, love, social justice, family, identity and place. Published in 2005 by Old Cove Press
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Black Box: Poems
A powerful collection from Frank X Walker, winner of the 2005 Lannan Literary Fellowship for Poetry. In this collection of sixty-eight poems, Kentucky writer Frank X Walker continues the personal poetic writing of his bestselling debut collection, Affrilachia. In Black Box, he expertly melds autobiography, political commentary, and literary allusions into a devastatingly beautiful journey through the real “Affrilachia”—a word Walker created to render visible the lives of the African Americans who call the rural and Appalachian South home. Written with passion, clarity, and emotional honesty, the poems in Black Box illuminate profound experiences at the intersection of race, love, social justice, family, identity and place. Published in 2005 by Old Cove Press
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Black Box: Poems

Black Box: Poems

by Frank X Walker
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Black Box: Poems

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Overview

A powerful collection from Frank X Walker, winner of the 2005 Lannan Literary Fellowship for Poetry. In this collection of sixty-eight poems, Kentucky writer Frank X Walker continues the personal poetic writing of his bestselling debut collection, Affrilachia. In Black Box, he expertly melds autobiography, political commentary, and literary allusions into a devastatingly beautiful journey through the real “Affrilachia”—a word Walker created to render visible the lives of the African Americans who call the rural and Appalachian South home. Written with passion, clarity, and emotional honesty, the poems in Black Box illuminate profound experiences at the intersection of race, love, social justice, family, identity and place. Published in 2005 by Old Cove Press

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781735224213
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Publication date: 01/26/2021
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 144
File size: 645 KB

About the Author

Frank X Walker is a native of Danville, Kentucky, and professor of English at the University of Kentucky. A former Kentucky poet laureate, he is founding member of the Affrilachian Poets. Walker created the word Affrilachia to help make visible the Black experience in the Appalachian South. He is the author of many poetry volumes, including Affrilachia, Buffalo Dance: The Journey of York, Black Box: Poems, When Winter Come: The Ascension of York, and Isaac Murphy: I Dedicate This Ride.

Table of Contents

Contents Kentucky vs. Texas Western, 1966 Handmade Canning Memories View Finder Kodak Moment Photosynthesis Family Reunion Glutton Sugar Babies Twenty-First Sentry Writes of Passage Too Wise Men Elves Altitude Adjustment Enough Jesuit Curiosity Why We Keep Plants Frontier Spirit Creek Philosophy Salt Last Words Earthmen Lil’ League Shaman Jumpman Teed Off Nosotros Double Exposure Rustlin’ We Real Crunk Brer Fox Cold Still When I Can’t Find the Words Walk With Me Bashō Literary Patriarch After Charlotte Left George Ella’s Party at Hindman My Poems Been Runnin’ They Mouths Again How to Bury a Dead Man Write Like a Dog The Dozens Crooked Letter Crooked Letter Eye Humpback Humpback Eye Memento Boonesborough Beacon Blues Ridge Meteorologist Theory of Relativity Bread and Fruit Camel Conquers Eye of Needle Ms. CegeNation Sunday Morning Son Rise Spit Shine Silent Witness Fetal Position Hollow Last Writes: A Requiem for Mamma Haiku for Nikki La Arquitectura Voyeur He Who Sleeps Alone Black Box Wings ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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American Poetry
African American Poetry
Other American Poetry
American poetry->African American authors
American poetry->Male authors

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