Turn Me Loose The Unghosting of Medgar Evers

Name: Turn Me Loose The Unghosting of Medgar Evers
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ISBN: 9780820345413

ISBN-10: 0820345415

ISBN-13: 9780820345413

Edition: 2013

Authors: Frank X. Walker, Michelle Hite

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Around the void left by the murder of Medgar Evers in 1963, the poems in this collection speak, unleashing the strong emotions both before and after the moment of assassination. Poems take on the voices of Evers's widow, Myrlie; his brother, Charles; his assassin, Byron De La Beckwith; and each of De La Beckwith's two wives. Except for the book's title,"Turn me loose," which were his final words, Evers remains in this collection silent. Yet the poems accumulate facets of the love and hate with which others saw this man, unghosting him in a way that only imagination makes possible.

Book details

List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Publication date: 5/1/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 96
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.35" tall
Weight: 0.286
Language: English



Foreword How Do We Comply?: Answering the Call of Medgar Evers



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Dixie Suite


What Kills Me


Ambiguity over the Confederate Flag


Rotten Fruit


Humor Me


The N-Word


Southern Sports


Byron De La Beckwith Dreaming I


I'd Wish I Was in Dixie Too



Southern Dream


Fire Proof


Listening to Music


Life Apes Art Apes Life: Byron De La Beckwith Reflects on Birth of a Nation


White of Way


Music, Niggers & Jews


Swamp Thing


Stand by Your Man


Husbandry


Unwritten Rules for Young Black Boys Wanting to Live in Mississippi Long Enough to Become Men



Look Away, Look Away…


Byron De La Beckwith Dreaming II


After Dinner in Money, Mississippi


World War Too


Believing in Hymn


Southern Bells


Fighting Extinction


Harriet Tubman as Villain: A Ghost Story


Legal Lynching


After the FBI Searched the Bayou


Haiku for Emmett Till


No More Fear


When Death Moved In


Part IV


Byron De La Beckwith Dreaming III


After Birth


Sorority Meeting


One-Third of 180 Grams of Lead


Arlington


Cross-Examination


Bighearted


Anatomy of Hate


What They Call Irony


On Moving to California



Bitter Fruit


One Mississippi, Two Mississippis


A Final Accounting


Now One Wants to Be President


Epiphany


Last Meal Haiku


White Knights


Evers Family Secret Recipe


The Assurance Man


Gift of Time


Heavy Wait


Time Line


Bibliography