Abide / Jake Adam York.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

York, Jake Adam.

Series:

Crab Orchard award series in poetry.

Crab Orchard Series in Poetry

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--21st century.

American poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (98 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Carbondale, Illinois : Crab Orchard Review & Southern Illinois University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In the years leading up to his recent passing, Alabama poet Jake Adam York set out on a journey to elegize the 126 martyrs of the civil rights movement, murdered in the years between 1954 and 1968. Abide is the stunning follow-up to York's earlier volumes, a memorial in verse for those fallen. From Birmingham to Okemah, Memphis to Houston, York's poems both mourn and inspire in their quest for justice, ownership, and understanding.Within are anthems to John Earl Reese, a sixteen-year-old shot by Klansmen through the window of a café in Mayflower, Texas, where he was danci

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Abide with Me; te lyra pulsa manu or something like that; Epistrophy; Letter to Be Wrapped around a 12-Inch Disc; Letter Hidden in a Letter to Cy Twombly; Postscript; Mayflower; Letter Written on a Hundred Dollar Bill; Letter Written on a Record Sleeve; Abide; Postscript Written on a J-Card; Exploded View; My Great-Grandmother's Snuff Cup; Feedback Loop; Letter Written in Black Water and Pearl; Laws of Conservation; Cry of the Occasion; The Voice of Woody Guthrie Wakes in an Antenna in Okemah, Oklahoma; Letter from Okemah; Postscript to Silence

Letter Already Broadcast into Space Abide; Letter Written in the Breath; Inscription for Air; Dear Brother,; Tape Loop; Letter Written in Someone Else's Hand; Letter Written in the Dark; Postscript (Already Breaking in Distant Echoes); Letter to Be Read by Furnace Light; Foreword to a Subsequent Reading; Acknowledgments; Other Books in the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry; Back Cover

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8093-3328-7

OCLC:

870589290