When Frank X Walker's compelling collection of personal poems was first released in 2004, it told the story of the infamous Lewis and Clark expedition from the point of view of York, who was enslaved to Clark and became the first African American man to traverse the continent. The fictionalized poems in Buffalo Dance form a narrative of York's inner journey before, during, and after the expedition—a journey from slavery to freedom, from the plantation to the great Northwest, from servant to soul yearning to be free.
In this expanded edition, Walker utilizes extensive historical research, interviews, transcribed oral histories from the Nez Perce Reservation, art, and empathy to breathe new life into an important but overlooked historical figure. Featuring a new historical essay, preface, and sixteen additional poems, this powerful work speaks to such themes as racism, the power of literacy, the inhumanity of slavery, and the crimes against Native Americans, while reawakening and reclaiming the lost "voice" of York.
- 104 pages
- English
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Publisher
The University Press of KentuckyYear
2022Print ISBN
9780813196459
9780813196442
Edition
2eBook ISBN
9780813196473
Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Historical Note
- Preface to the Expanded Edition
- Map
- Wind Talker
- Falls of the Ohio
- To Protect and Serve
- Work Ethic
- God's House
- Primer
- At Ease
- Sundays and Christmas
- Lie of Omission
- Calendar
- Her Current
- Medicine Men
- Spirit Mound
- Wasicum Sapa
- Winter Leaf
- Buffalo Dance
- A House is Not a Home
- No Offense
- Leading Men
- Domestique
- Work Song
- A Rock, a Fort, a Island
- Not the Only One
- Perfume
- Black Magic
- Sandstone Thighs
- Mouths and Waters
- Home, Home on the Range
- The Portage
- Sun Son
- Double Yolks
- Ornithologists
- Nigrathologists
- Swap Meet
- Promises
- Nomenclature
- Respect House
- Prosperity
- . . . Another Man’s Treasure
- Vision Quest
- Vision Quest II
- Ananse
- Mythology
- Traveling Men
- Earth Tones
- Sweat Lodge
- Doubt
- Cold Hearted
- Super(in)huMane
- Cure for Homesickness
- Sad Eye
- Aurora Borealis
- Electorate
- Winter with Jonah
- Majesty
- Pomp's Tower
- The Little Sneeze
- York Haichu
- Private Lessons
- Pastry Chefs
- Solid Black
- Pure White
- Unravel
- Revisionist History
- Monticello
- Souvenir
- Just Rewards
- A Love Supreme
- Night Breaks, Freedom Too
- Holy Water
- Ursa Major
- Cumulonimbus
- Birth Day
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Kentucky Voices
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