In this Book
- Turn Me Loose: The Unghosting of Medgar Evers
- Book
- 2013
- Published by: University of Georgia Press
summary
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.
Table of Contents
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- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- pp. xxi-xxii
- INTRODUCTION
- pp. xxiii-xxiv
- PART I: DIXIE SUITE
- What Kills Me
- p. 3
- Rotten Fruit
- pp. 5-6
- The N-Word
- pp. 8-9
- Southern Sports
- p. 10
- PART II: SOUTHERN DREAMS
- Fire Proof
- p. 15
- Listening to Music
- p. 16
- White of Way
- p. 18
- Swamp Thing
- p. 20
- Stand by Your Man
- p. 21
- PART III: LOOK AWAY, LOOK AWAY . . .
- Byron De La Beckwith Dreaming II
- pp. 27-28
- World War Too
- p. 30
- Believing in Hymn
- p. 31
- Southern Bells
- p. 32
- Fighting Extinction
- p. 33
- Legal Lynching
- p. 35
- No More Fear
- p. 38
- When Death Moved In
- pp. 39-40
- PART IV: GALLANT SOUTH
- After Birth
- p. 44
- Sorority Meeting
- pp. 45-46
- Cross-Examination
- p. 49
- Bighearted
- p. 50
- Anatomy of Hate
- p. 51
- What They Call Irony
- p. 52
- On Moving to California
- pp. 53-54
- PART V: BITTER FRUIT
- A Final Accounting
- p. 58
- Last Meal Haiku
- p. 61
- White Knights
- p. 62
- The Assurance Man
- p. 64
- Gift of Time
- p. 65
- Heavy Wait
- p. 66
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- p. 71
Additional Information
ISBN
9780820345864
Related ISBN(s)
9780820345413
MARC Record
OCLC
859687903
Pages
96
Launched on MUSE
2013-06-27
Language
English
Open Access
No
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