Affrilachia(Reprint) Poems (Library Binding) by FrankX. Walker Library, Published 2009 ISBN-13: 978-1-4395-1458-0, ISBN: 1-4395-1458-5
"Affrilachia is Frank X Walker's groundbreaking first collection of poems, now in its fourth printing. Walker created the word "Affrilachia," which recently was included in the New Oxford American Dictionary."
"The South: to render all that it means to an African American takes someone with acutely tuned senses, someone with a patience, a passion even, for the region's history and contradictions. It takes a poet. In this new anthology, the first of its kind, more than one hundred contemporary black poets laugh at and cry about, pray for and curse, flee and return to--the South.Voices new to the scene appear in The Ringing Ear alongside some of ..."