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A murmuration of starlings / Jake Adam York.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- York, Jake Adam.
- Series:
- Crab Orchard award series in poetry.
- Crab Orchard series in poetry : open competition award
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Civil rights movements--United States--Poetry.
- Civil rights movements.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (98 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Carbondale : Crab Orchard Review : Southern Illinois University Press, c2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A Murmuration of Starlings elegizes the martyrs of the civil rights movement, whose names are inscribed on the stone table of the Civil Rights Memorial in Montgomery, Alabama.Individually, Jake Adam York's poems are elegies for individuals; collectively, they consider the violence of a racist culture and the determination to resist that racism.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Shall Be Taught to Speak
- For Lamar Smith
- At Liberty
- Substantiation
- At Money
- B/W
- The Crowd He Becomes
- Tuck
- For Reverend James Reeb
- A Murmuration of Starlings
- March
- Watch
- The Small Birds of Sound
- At Sun Ra's Grave
- Still in Motion
- Notes
- Copyright Credits
- Other Books in the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry
- Back Cover.
- Notes:
- Poems.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-8093-8717-4
- 1-299-05056-5
- OCLC:
- 828870113
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