Last Will, Last Testament
1st Edition
Published on 1. April 2019
74 pages
978-1-936628-72-8 (ISBN)
Description
In his latest collection, Last Will, Last Testament, Frank X Walker turns the same unflinching gaze he's committed to historic figures now towards his own lineage. As these poems bear witness in real time to his father's last breaths even as his new son takes his first, Walker serves again as the linchpin between generations. Ever a master distiller of the heart, Walker presents us with, arguably, his most complex elixir to date, best imbibed with no chaser. - Bianca Lynne Spriggs
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Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Dedication
- Foreword
- Botany
- Eclipse
- Wheeze
- Night Shift
- Practicing Modesty
- Harvest Time
- Hoofers
- Lion King
- Wait, Weight, Don't Tell Me
- Meatpacking Plant
- The White Version of My Daddy
- Dream
- Bill Collectors
- We Buried Him Sitting
- No Names, Know Names
- Driving It Like It Was Stolen
- Thumb Wrestlers
- Sweat Equity
- Answering Machine
- Because It's a Funeral
- The Real Creator
- Winter Is Coming
- All He Left Us Was a Loan
- Some Assembly Required
- Seconds
- Because I Look More Like My Father
- Mr. Miagi
- Ghost Dad
- Last Will, Last Testament
- Pissing on Primogeniture
- Obituary
- Making New Memories
- Thou Shalt Not Unfriend Your Neighbor
- Ventriloquism
- In Another Universe
- Ritual
- Mourning . Sun
- Rock, Paper, Scissors
- Afrofuturistic Messaging
- What I Think My Son Was Teaching Me
- Autumnal
- the lesson of the fall trees
- Afterword
- Missive to Faith and Frank
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
