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  | | Abide(1st Edition) (Crab Orchard Series in Poetry) by Jake Adam York Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 2014 by Southern Illinois University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8093-3327-1, ISBN: 0-8093-3327-9 "Winner, 2015 Colorado Book Award Finalist, 2015 National Book Critics Circle AwardIn 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 bot ..." |
 | | A Murmuration of Starlings(1st Edition) (Crab Orchard Award Series in Poetry) by Jake Adam York Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 2008 by Southern Illinois University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8093-2837-6, ISBN: 0-8093-2837-2 "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. York follows Sun Ra, a Birmingham jazz musician whose response to racial violence was to se ..." |
 | | The Architecture of Address(1st Edition) The Monument and Public Speech in American Poetry (Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory) by Jake Adam York Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2014 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-0-415-76267-0, ISBN: 0-415-76267-7 "The Architecture of Address traces the evolution of an American species of lyric capable of public pronouncement without polemic. Beginning with Whitman, Jake Adam York seeks to describe a kind of poem wherein the most ambitious poets--including Hart Crane and Robert Lowell--occupy and reconstruct important public spaces. This study argues that American poets become civic actors when their poems imagine and reconstruct the conceptual ar ..." |
 | | Murder Ballads(1st Edition) by Jake Adam York Paperback, 80 Pages, Published 2005 by Elixir Press ISBN-13: 978-1-932418-15-6, ISBN: 1-932418-15-6 "Poetry. "Rather than introspection, sensationalism, or mere entertainment, remembering becomes an act of engagement, one that propels the poet toward a fierce intellectual and moral reckoning. And we in turn are held rapt by the lyric enactments of this poet who takes dangerous materials into his hands; who stubbornly pulls at the poisonous sumac obscuring a furnace's ruins; who probes old wound, transfiguring them into new patterns. MU ..." |
 | | The Architecture of Address(1st Edition) The Monument and Public Speech in American Poetry (Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory) by Jake Adam York Hardcover, 256 Pages, Published 2004 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-0-415-97058-7, ISBN: 0-415-97058-X "Lewis, R. W. B. "Crane's Visionary Lyric: The Way to The Bridge." In Critical Essays on Hart Crane, ed. David Clark, 73-92. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1982. . The Poetry of Hart Crane: A Critical Study. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1967. Leibowitz, Herbert A. Hart Crane: An Introduction to the Poetry. New York: Columbia University Press, 1968. Lowell, Robert. Collected Poems, ed. ... McGill, Meredith L. "Enlistment and Refusal: ..." |