Load In Nine Times: Poems

The first African American writer to be named Kentucky Poet Laureate and co-founder of the Affrilachian Poets, Frank X Walker, multidisciplinary artist and author of thirteen collections of poetry and a children’s book, serves as Professor of Creative Writing and African American and Africana Studies at the University of Kentucky. In this stirring new collection of historical poetry, Load In Nine Times, he braids the voices of the United States Colored Troops–including his own ancestors–with family members, as well as slaveowners and prominent historical figures–including Frederick Douglas, Abraham Lincoln, and Margaret Garner–into a wide-ranging series of persona poems imbued with atmospheric imagery and brimming with indomitable spirit.