Masked Man, Black
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"We all wear masks. There are people with whom we can take our masks off and speak from the heart. Professor Walker is an expert in masks, or personas. And he well knows that sometimes masks let us speak deep truths about the world. He also knows masks sometimes protect us, sometimes keep us from ourselves, and sometimes cause us pain. Paul Dunbar, in "We Wear the Mask," asks of the world and of poetry, "Why should the world be over-wise, / In counting all our tears and sighs?" Yet, it seems that now, as then, the world pays too little attention to the tears and sighs about which Dunbar sings. We are so grateful that Walker has taken the time to sit with death and pain and heartbreak, to sit and tune his voice to sing these elegies, so that we can gather around him to sing through our tears with head held high. " -Jeremy Paden
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Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Introduction
- Dedication
- Silver Linings
- Commencement 2020
- The Walking Dead
- If There Was No More Anything .
- Bad Medicine
- Half the Treasure I Won .
- Baptism by Dirt
- To the Ten-Year-Old Kid on a Ventilator
- Before Hashtags
- Old-School Math
- On Mother's Day
- Severe Weather Warning
- B.C.
- Peculiar
- Hairline Fracture
- Mendacity
- Mrs. Butterworth, Uncle Ben & Aunt Jemima
- Complicit, at Most
- To the White Women Who Formed a Line .
- The End of Sporting
- Read a Book, Then Ask What You Can Do
- Offensive Captain
- Qualified Immunity
- Twelve Things Amy Believed She Knew
- Sleight of Hand
- Ode to Meat Packers
- Easter Prayer, 2020 A.C.
- Fake News?
- Mamasorri School
- I'm Being Sarcastic
- Combustibles
- Deejay Battle
- Y'all Say I Do, We Say Black Lives Matter
- The Faithful
- A New Word Order
- Colonizer-13
- Dirty Dozen
- Masked Man, Black
- To the Man Who Wore a Klan Hood to the Grocery Store .
- To the Man Spewing Spit and Vitriol in the Trooper's Face .
- Hypocrites and Oaths
- Want Ads
- Season Ticket Holders
- Too Soon?
- Exodus?
- Stormy Forecast
- A Joyful Noise
- The Apprenticeship Wreck
- Citius, Altius, Fortius, A.C.
- Scientific Doubt
- Like Moby-Dick, but Bigger
- Six Feet Under, Six Apart
- Revisionist History
- Remember to Breathe
- O Death
- Laissez les Bon Temps Rouler
- 2020 Vision
- Corona Love
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
