Alexandria's Reviews > Turn Me Loose: The Unghosting of Medgar Evers

** spoiler alert ** I was supposed to read this my first year of college for a creative writing class. I ended up not having enough time to read it, but I saw it on my shelf recently and felt that now was the time.

I was a little hesitant at the beginning while reading the foreward because I haven't been presented with a collection of poetry that has something like that at the beginning. However, the poems included are very powerful.

The collection of poetry is divided into five parts detailing characters surrounding Medgar Evers. The fourth part, gallant South, is so powerful that I had cold chills while reading those poems. Immediately moving into the fifth section, the first poem titled, "One Mississippi, Two Mississippis", had me struck because I didn't realize until about halfway through reading that, that I was reading it in the way children count one Mississippi, two Mississippi, three Mississippi, etc. Inherently by knowing this, I believe that made that poem really come alive for me.

Overall, Frank x Walker weaves an incredible collection of poetry that I am glad I waited to read now that I am more understanding of the topic and genre.