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Record Nr.

UNINA9910819478203321

Autore

York Jake Adam

Titolo

Persons unknown [[electronic resource] /] / Jake Adam York

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Carbondale ; ; Edwardsville, : Crab Orchard Review, : Southern Illinois University Press, c2010

ISBN

1-280-69685-0

9786613673817

0-8093-8578-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (113 p.)

Collana

Crab Orchard series in poetry

Disciplina

811/.6

Soggetti

American poetry - 21st century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Book Title; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; One; Homochitto; Sensitivity; Darkly; Narcissus incomparabilis; The Hands of Persons Unknown; A Natural History of Mississippi; And Ever; Mothlight; Collect; Two; City of Grace; Self-Portrait as a Moment in 1963; Before Knowing Remembers; The Second Person; Self-Portrait in a Plate-Glass Window; Self-Portrait at a Bend in the Road; Shore; Self-Portrait in the Town Where I Was Born; Elegy; Notes; Other Books in the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry; Back Cover

Sommario/riassunto

In this stunning continuation to the poetry collection A Murmuration of Starlings, dedicated to those who lost their lives during the Civil Rights movement, Jake Adam York presents another set of searing portraits of these martyrs-men whose murders haunt America's history. These elegiac and documentary poems seek justice and understanding for such sacrifices as Mack Charles Parker, lynched in Mississippi in 1959, his body disposed of in the waters of the Pearl River; Charles Eddie Moore and Henry Hezekiah Dee, abducted into the depths of the Homochitto Forest, beaten, and drowned in the Missis