Turn me loose the unghosting of Medgar Evers : poems /
by Frank X. Walker.
- Athens : The University of Georgia Press, (c)2013.
- 1 online resource (pages cm.)
Includes bibliographical references.
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 and 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.