An edition of Turn me loose (2013)

Turn me loose

the unghosting of Medgar Evers : poems

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An edition of Turn me loose (2013)

Turn me loose

the unghosting of Medgar Evers : poems

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In this selection of poetry the author writes from the point of view of people involved in the life and death of Medgar Evers, including his widow, his brother, his assassin Byron De La Beckwith, and both of Beckwith's wives.

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English
Pages
71

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Table of Contents

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
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
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
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
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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (page 71).

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
811/.6
Library of Congress
PS3623.A359 T87 2013, PS3623.A359T87 2013

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxiv, 71 pages
Number of pages
71

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL26921773M
Internet Archive
turnmelooseungho0000walk
ISBN 10
0820345415
ISBN 13
9780820345413
LCCN
2012046531
OCLC/WorldCat
824501974

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