Turn Me Loose

The Unghosting of Medgar Evers

Fiction & Literature, Poetry, American
Cover of the book Turn Me Loose by Frank X Walker, Michelle Hite, University of Georgia Press
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Author: Frank X Walker, Michelle Hite ISBN: 9780820345864
Publisher: University of Georgia Press Publication: May 1, 2013
Imprint: University of Georgia Press Language: English
Author: Frank X Walker, Michelle Hite
ISBN: 9780820345864
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Publication: May 1, 2013
Imprint: University of Georgia Press
Language: English

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.

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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.

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