Turn Me Loose: The Unghosting of Medgar Evers Charles E. Hill Forget who black women are

Forget who black women are "supposed" to be

With compassion and enthusiasm

whosguardingthegates

the thrill of the alien

Turn Me Loose: The Unghosting of Medgar Evers Charles E. Hill Forget who black women areAround the void left by the murder of Medgar Evers in 1963, the poems in this collection speak, unleashing the strong emotions both before and after the moment of assassination. Poems take on the voices of Evers's widow, Myrlie; his brother, Charles; his assassin, Byron De La Beckwith; and each of De La Beckwith's two wives. Except for the book's title,"Turn me loose," which were his final words, Evers remains in this collection silent. Yet the poems