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- Title
Wrighting the West: Leaving Marks in Frank X Walker's York Poems.
- Authors
Smith, Jimmy Dean
- Abstract
The article focuses on poet Frank X Walker's York poems. It discusses Walker's "Buffalo Dance: The Journey of York" and its reboot "When Winter Come: The Ascension of York," which revisits and revisions the journey of the Corps of Expedition. It also looks at how Walker foregrounds the ideological processes to reaffirm the role of mythology and storytelling in exploration of the truth.
- Subjects
WALKER, Frank X., 1961-; BUFFALO Dance: The Journey of York (Book); WHEN Winter Come: The Ascension of York (Book); MYTHOLOGY; STORYTELLING
- Publication
Western American Literature, 2018, Vol 52, Issue 4, p435
- ISSN
0043-3462
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/wal.2018.0002