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Affrilachia: Poems by Frank X Walker

by Frank X. Walker · 2000

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"The poems. . .are funny and sad, tragic and hopeful, angry and determined, and as filled with generosity and love as poetry by any American writer in a generation."—Back cover by Gurney Norman.

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